原鄉的記憶 召喚著漂流的靈魂
8/17 (二)10:00PM公視首播｜重播8/18(三)2:30AM 8/21(六)3:00PM｜
2010, HDCAM, 57',documentary
a MIMEOFILMS production
presented by Public Television Service Foundation(Taipe)
《 無邊奔流 | THE BOUNDLESS RIVER 》, 2010｜
製作：印花印象 MIMEO FILMS｜監製：古國威｜導演．攝影指導：劉建偉｜
副導演．音樂：盧彥中｜畫作：林惺嶽｜出品：財團法人公共電視廣電事業基金會《紀錄觀點》｜
七十歲的畫家林惺嶽，認為他的藝術生涯有個很大的驕傲。就是從未在畫壇上得過任何大獎。他總是告誡年輕的創作者：「畫作掛在威尼斯的國際展場不重要，要掛在台灣人的客廳才重要！」。他還頗為得意，他的畫作就掛在台灣總統招待外國貴賓的客廳。
林惺嶽1939年出生於台中，自小失去雙親的他，成長過程顛沛流離，1965年自國立師範大學美術系畢業後，開始展開他超現實手法的創作，他飄萍無依的身世與內在心靈投射在他早期淒美、靜謐、緲遠的作品中。1975年，赴西班牙學畫遊學近三年，親身感受西班牙民主化過程中的澎湃民情，激發他對故鄉台灣的歷史、美術史重新審視；1978年，為接洽西班牙當代藝術交流，於返國時乘坐的韓籍客機誤入俄境而迫降，歷險歸來後，促使他轉而注視他生長的土地──台灣。
巍峨的大山、插天的樹木、遼闊的海岸、翻滾的河川、甜美的果實……，林惺嶽以其對台灣這塊土地的熱愛，用其充滿感性的畫筆，畫出一幅又一幅繽紛自信的台灣景貌，他要讓山林說話，聲音就悠然傳開；當他容許大地安靜下來，每一朵花便沉默不語；彷彿完成的每首詩，既可朗讀，又可低吟；既可近觀，又可遠看。隨著年歲的增加，他的體力漸漸無法支持他繼續創作，但他的創作意圖卻更加的濃烈，一次接一次，他用意志力挑戰巨幅的空白畫布，對他而言，藝術是永不休止的志業。
在這個劇烈變遷的全球化時代，文明的價值定義，被陸續崛起的資本強權重新詮釋。致力於本土文化紮根的老靈魂，企圖指引我們走向怎樣的道路？
Lin Hsing-Yueh, a seventy-year-old painter, is very proud of himself never winning any art related award in Taiwan. He always told young artists that it should be more important to have your paintings hung in the living room of Taiwanese people rather than hung in the international exhibition halls. He is also quite proud of having his paintings hung in Taiwan's presidential reception room for foreign dignitaries.
Born in Taiwan Taichung in 1939, Lin Hsing-Yueh had a difficult childhood as his parents were dead in his early age. In 1965, after graduating from Department of Fine Arts of National Taiwan Normal University, he began his surreal way of painting that projected the desolation, quietness, distance of his early life. In 1975, Lin Hsing-Yueh went to Spain studying painting for nearly three years. In that period of time, he experienced the blooming of Spain's democratization which inspiring him to reflecting in his paintings again the history of his native land, Taiwan.
The majestic mountains, the trees growing to the horizon, the vast coast, the tumbling rivers, sweet fruits and so on, Lin Hsing-Yueh showed his love of Taiwan via his painting. With the emotional brushes, he confidently revealed the spectacular images of Taiwan’s landscape. In his paintings, if he let the mountains speak, the voice shall be leisurely spreading out; when he made the earth to calm down, each flower would keep quiet. Like poems, his paintings could be read and whispered; moreover, they could be approached or seen in the distance. As he grows older, his body gradually can not support him to paint, but his ambition to creation now is stronger than ever before. One after another, Lin Hsing-Yueh keeps taking on the challenges to the fill blank canvas. For him, art is a life long career.
In this era of globalization, the definition of civilization has been re-interpretated again and again by the capitalists. Dedicated to root the local culture, the prophet is trying to guide us where to go.
導演的話
一般民眾，或剛學著當文青的學子，常被美術館裡看不懂的藝術，以及看不懂的藝術評論著作所困限住，甚至恐懼而逃避。要對一般大眾，討論原被誤以為艱深的文化知識，其實是極大的挑戰。毛毛蟲兒童哲學基金會創辦人楊茂秀，運用簡單的語彙，演講及著作導引兒童及一般大眾的哲學思維的萌發；被譽為美學佈道者的蔣動，其著作及文字言簡意賅，引人入勝。類似的文化知識的推廣者，我認為是台灣社會最欠缺的角色。因為被攝者在藝壇的爭議性，拍攝這部紀錄片，反而更能顯露出我想要呈現的主題—我們可以更有勇氣、更有自信呈現出自己獨特的美學觀察及主見。
