LI-MING
───── 鄭立明 ──────
Taiwan｜2016｜HD｜Color｜25min
Nowadays, cinema has closed one after another. “Premiere Cinema” in Meinong, which opened in 1969 and closed in 1991, had built collective memories for people in town. These faded traces once nourished someone’s dreams where fairies still dance, where laughter and tear reechoes.
This film develops in remains of cinema, where past usher walks to and fro holding a flashlight in darkness and ticket agent counted tickets day after day; the past scenes has its romance, fright, pain, lust and bitterness. The cinema is a miniature of the universe, those who were lived for it and fascinated with it are still lingering in this space, in this dream and doesn’t wake up.
The last part of film is story of Chung Hao-tong, the story is a wound that people refused to speak of for a long while, and not many remembered now. It was a taboo for cinema once, and now I perform it through this work in remembrance of his spirit.
戲院熄燈了，有些痕跡還殘留著，禁忌的、壓抑的，歡笑的、恐怖的，影像仍然徘徊不去，持手電筒的帶位者仍舊在黑暗中來回穿梭，售票員還一張一張地賣著票，仍有觀眾流連不去。散落一地的膠捲彷彿仍在放映著。在蜘蛛的羅網之中，在螞蟻的路徑之中。
戲院熄燈了，有些痕跡還殘留著，多年之後戲院的帶位者又回到戲院廢墟。彼時，觀眾來來去去，在他的手電燈光牽引下，男女老少帶著零食與夢想入座。 滔滔不絕的辯士操縱著台下觀眾。座椅滿了又空，空了又滿，有人太過入戲，亦步亦趨，也有人失魂恍神，懷抱憂傷。疲倦的售票小姐在鈔票與戲票之間，抓住客人的大手，酣睡如夢。 如今座椅空了，片格腐朽，春光睏倦了。記憶與想望互相搶位、換座。戲裡戲外顛倒，台前幕後翻轉。終究殘酷無情的不是歲月，是神秘剪刀。
Biography
電影科，曾任職傳播公司、金馬獎、電影資料館等，作過電影雜誌、叢書編輯以及影展策劃。早以影評文字開始切入電影創作。2006年開始發表以城市空間觀察為主題影像作品「鑿空系列」：<鑿空>(2006)金穗獎，<傷城>(2008)<等待．真愛>、2013拍攝短片<跳房子>參與反核運動,2014完成新作<尋找木柵女>。
born in 1968, Chang-Hua, Taiwan, graduated from Shih-Hsin University, had worked for media, the Golden Horse International Film Festival, and Chinese Taipei Film Archive. He also writes film reviews and is also an award-winning writer.
His serial works: Through (2007), Sorrow of City(2008) and Waiting for T.L., explore the depth of time and space of the city.Hopscoch (2013), is a short film about anti-nuclear.his recently work is"Looking for Siraya"
