第12届FIRST影展“国际短片”提名影片《炼金边缘》

《炼金边缘》导演

《炼金边缘》剧照

《炼金边缘》剧照

炼金边缘

Edge of Alchemy

亚洲首映

Asia Premiere

*评委会大奖（短片）提名

美国 | 2017 | 彩色 | 19分钟 | 实验

US | 2017 | Color | 19min | Experimental

导演/编剧/制片人 | 史塔西·斯提尔斯

摄影 | 维克托·简德拉斯

剪辑 | 安东尼·库珀

音效 | 莱奇·简考斯基、菲尔·所罗门

导演简介

史塔西·斯提尔斯因她精心设计、工艺复杂的折纸动画而广为人知。她近期的作品取材于老电影，并从中提炼出全新的，富有诗意的故事新作。斯提尔斯的影片在圣丹斯电影节、提伦莱德电影节、纽约新导演电影节、鹿特丹国际电影节、洛迦诺国际电影节等进行展映。她新近拓展创作语境，融合了三维的艺术元素，为电影开启全新的实验性。史塔西·斯提尔斯荣获过古根海姆基金、创意都市及美国电影学院授予的诸多奖项。目前她在科罗拉多的博尔多市工作生活。

Director’s Biography

Stacey Steers is known for her process-driven, labor-intensive animated films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Her recent work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, lyrical narratives. Steers’ films have screened widely at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, New Directors New Films (New York), IFFR Rotterdam, Locarno IFF, MoMA and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). Recently she has expanded her work to include collaborative installations that join invented, three-dimensional production elements with film loops, creating a new context for experiencing her films. Stacey Steers is a recipient of major grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital and the American Film Institute. She lives and works in Boulder, CO.

剧情简介

《炼金边缘》将电影默片时代的演员玛丽·平克福德和珍妮·盖纳从她们1920年代的老电影中摘取出来，并无缝安插到一个超现实主义的反弗兰肯斯坦式故事和一段集体崩溃的暗流中。这部影片由六千多张手工制作的拼接图片构成，作为三部曲中的最后一段，聚焦于女性复杂深邃的内心世界。音乐和音效设计出自Brothers Quay的莱奇·简考斯基之手。

Synopsis

InEdge of Alchemy, the silent-era actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are seamlessly appropriated from their early films of the 1920's and cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story and an undercurrent of hive collapse.Comprised of over 6000 handmade collages, Edge of Alchemy is the third in a trilogylooking at the psychological terrain of women’s inner worlds. Music and sound design by Lech Jankowski (Brothers Quay).

“这种需要创作者殚精竭虑、耗时数年的手工二维动画杰作如今已难得一见。默片影像与古典插图结合十分自然，运动流畅优美，各个元素的质感和叠透关系克服了拼贴手法常见的僵硬感。声带与乐器所可能发出的音一一作为零部件，构建出错落有致的听觉空间。”

“This kind of handmade and two-dimensional animation which requires many years’ hard work and consideration is now scarce. This film naturally combined silent movie scenes and classic iconography. The texture andlayers of pictures perfectly overcame thepossiblestiffness . a complicated yet ordered auditory space is built with every piece of sound that can be produced by the vocal cord and musical instrument.”