Beauty That Emerges from Tragedy
Date: 17 June 2023 (Sat)
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque
@Eye Catcher Global 2023
Post-Screening Talk Guest: Aditya ASSARAT
Moderator: Jun LI
We were very honoured to have a screening of Aditya ASSARAT’s debut feature Wonderful Town during the Eye Catcher Showcase, and to have Director Aditya and moderator Jun LI during the post-screening talk.
Wonderful Town was made in 2006, right after the tsunami of 2004. Due to the cancellation of a project, Dir. Aditya and his crew passed through a small town in Thailand named Pha Ngan, where the tsunami hit the worst. Although the whole town was cleaned up already, visitors could barely tell that anything had happened there, the people who lived there had not really moved on from the tragedy yet. When talking to them, the director also started to have the idea of putting such a state of living into a film. As an independent filmmaker who always had no budget, things just happened by coincidence. When they took a rest and walked around a hotel, the idea of a love story popped up, where later on the hotel also became the major shooting site.
Besides the discussion on Wonderful Town, they also shared and exchanged their experiences of working in the role of producer and director receptively. “As a director, you can never look at it with objective eyes. As a producer, you can.” Aditya mentioned that these 2 roles look at the film in a different way. For example, when they sit in the editing room trying to cut things out from the director’s work, the director would always think the length is perfect. One can only edit other’s films as directors can’t see the whole picture of your own work but only what they want to see.
劫後的無限風光
日期：2023年6月17日（六）
地點：百老匯電影中心
@Eye Catcher Global 2023
映後談嘉賓：阿狄阿薩拉
主持：李駿碩
很高興能夠在今年的奪目展映當中，放映導演阿狄阿薩拉的第一部電影《奇妙小鎮》，導演更親身出席映後談，與90後導演李駿碩對談。
《奇妙小鎮》於2006年製作，正值當時2004年的南亞大海嘯的災難發生以後。當時由於另一個計劃被取消，一行人回程時經過泰國的帕岸島，那是當時其中一個海嘯影響最深的小島。雖然事隔一年，整個小鎮關於這場災難的痕跡已經被完全地整理過了，甚至是遊客經過也完全看不出來這裏曾經發生過甚麼的程度。當然，表面的整理從來不等同內心的整理，許多居民仍然處於這場災難帶來的悲痛當中。導演在跟他們交談的期間，萌生把這個小鎮的狀態放進電影的念頭。作為總是缺乏預算的獨立製作，許多事情的發生都是一連串的偶然。當眾人在附近的酒店停下腳步稍息，這個念頭便漸漸形成為一個愛情故事，而後來那間酒店也就順理成章成為主要的拍攝場地。
除了《奇妙小鎮》的緣起，同樣身兼導演及監製角色的兩人，也討論到這兩個崗位角色轉換的經驗。「作為導演，你永遠無法以客觀的角度觀看你的作品。但作為監製就可以了。」導演阿狄阿薩拉以當作品進入剪接室為例子，導演總會覺得長度剛剛好。他們只看到自己想看到的，所以比起剪接別人的作品，親自剪接自己的作品，捨棄一些拍攝好的材料總是很困難。