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June 06 为什么不是‘消逝’或‘消失’？《悄逝的记忆》是先有英语名称，后有中文片名。 其实这部影片的第一个暂定片名(working title)，原本想过要叫做‘Moving On’。 因为我知道，其实有这部影片的产生，其实也只不过是因为自己无法‘move on’。 不过也不记得是什么情况下了，好像是在写影片/荣誉学位论文的计划书时，Diminishing Memories 这个字眼才蹦出来的！之后觉得这个名称比较可以更贴切地表达了这部影片的精髓，所以就想都没想，就决定了英语名称！ 那么中文片名又是怎么来的呢？（有趣的是，影片也是先有英语版，才有中文版！虽然我必须承认，我的思考情感是中文的）中文片名的产生，其实也没多大困难。反而是很自然地，几乎不用多加思考地，我的脑海中即刻闪过《悄逝的记忆》。它一直以来，从来都不是‘消逝’或者是‘消失’！不过我的确有刻意想要用发音跟‘消失’相同的‘悄逝’。因为‘悄逝’有更深一层的含义，而又跟‘消失’的发音很接近，我想这样会比较好记吧！谁知反效果就是媒体很容易往往就错把‘悄逝’打成或念成‘消逝’或‘消失’了！有一次更离谱，把《悄逝的记忆》念成《消失的童年》？？ 所以一直都好想好好地说明中文片名——《悄逝的记忆》的含义。 ‘悄’因为是悄悄地走了！无声无息地... ... （有句诗词大意是“我悄悄地来、悄悄地走，挥一挥衣袖，不带走一片云彩”） ‘逝’而不是‘失’，因为东西可能往往失而复得，但‘逝’也指人死了！是人，当然是人！因为林厝港对我来说‘它’不只是个地方，也是个人。是至亲！所以‘悄逝’的含义——我们都没发现，是在不知不觉中，它悄悄地走了！而且不止是不见了！它还死了！人死了就不会回来了！永永远远都不会回来了！一去不返。 于是，正当我们的记忆都在逐渐地退色中，我们的村落早已经死了！既然死了，也魂飞魄散了！（在我们被逼搬迁的那一刻开始，村民都被分散后，就已注定了结果）现在只剩我们仅存的回忆，在我们拥有这些记忆的人死后，也将灰飞烟灭。所以才必须有《悄逝的记忆》这部影片的诞生... ... November 26 Diminishing Memories DVD now on sale!Hello everyone! Due to the great respond from the Cine.SG full-house screening last month at the National Museum, there were people enquiring about purchasing Diminishing Memories on DVDs. Hence, I’m making it available for sale at S$24.95 + S$1.20 (Singapore postage/envelop) for private home viewing purposes. In addition, corporate price is also available for educational institutes and organizations to purchase for research/educational use. Please feel free to drop an email at diminishingmemories@hotmail.com for an order! ;-) Thanks so much for your support! **Price is meant for sale in Singapore and strictly NOT for sale in European regions** For purchase in the European Regions, please send your enquiries to diminishingmemories@hotmail.com 各位网友好！ 因为上个月在博物馆的放映会反应相当不错，爆满之余也开始有人询问能否购买到此片的DVD，于是我将开始售卖《悄逝的记忆》的DVD，也好筹一筹我下部片子的经费！:-) 希望有兴趣购买的人士、教育机构或团体能多多支持，谢谢大家！ 那么供私人用途，在家观赏的DVD售价是S$24.95，若需邮寄到新加坡地址则另加S$1.20 (邮票和信封）。 请有兴趣的朋友电邮到 diminishingmemories@hotmail.com 谢谢您的支持！ **此价格供新加坡出售，尤其不在欧洲地区发售** 有兴趣购买的欧洲地区者,请电邮diminishingmemories@hotmail.com 加以询问。 October 18 Cine.SG- Friday 5 (http://www.cine.sg/friday5.html)Friday 5 is a regular feature of Cine.SG.
We ask the filmmaking talents involved in Cine.SG a total of 5 questions in order to give you a chance to learn more about them and their movies.
This week we speak to Eng Yee Peng, director of Diminishing Memories , screening at the National Museum of Singapore on 18th October. Q1. You studied abroad. Did your experience living overseas lead to your nostalgia about home, and hence the making of this documentary? Yes, very much so. As I had the experience living in a kampong - in a house with front and back yard - before moving to a flat, there's no way I would have chosen to live in a small unit again when I studied in Australia. So it became such a luxury to live in a house again in my lifetime (not unless I leave Singapore), and the experience triggered the memories of living in a house in Lim Chu Kang. The project started off with the concept of comparing housing in Singapore vs Australia (how little or huge the land is in these two countries, therefore limiting the choices of housing in Singapore). But before anything became concrete, I knew it had to do with Lim Chu Kang, the village I grew up in and where most of my happiest moments in life were spent. I felt a very strong and complex emotion that started to surface, so different and unique that it stood out from the other topics I was considering documenting. Q2. Besides your own home, what do you most miss about the Singapore of your childhood and youth? Everything in the film. What's more I realised what I didn't miss when I was aboard. ;-) Q3. Was it difficult to interview your own family for this documentary? I knew what I was roughly getting into when I decided to interview my parents. However, I did not expect the extent of the impact. Making a personal film is different from making a film. Thus, interviewing your own parents is different from interviewing anyone else because your parents are not only subjects to be interviewed. Emotionally it was already very different. I don't think I should or I could separate my role of being an interviewer and a daughter at the same time, just like I don't think I should treat Lim Chu Kang like just any other village simply because it wasn't just a place to me. It was most difficult when it comes to more personal questions such as when I revealed to my mum for the first time, how I felt neglected when half of our family lived in Lim Chu Kang while the other half in Jurong for a span of six to eight months. Having said that, if not for the making of this documentary, I wouldn't have the opportunity to raise so many questions I had wanted to ask. Some of those were still unanswered. Q4. What did your family think about your wanting to be a filmmaker? I wondered if they took me seriously until the film won its first award in Australia. (I knew my mum didn't :-p hehe). But well, they did not object to it and gave all the support they could, like driving me around filming and helping me approach people from old Lim Chu Kang. I am fortunate I could follow my heart at this stage of my life and I was not forced to compromise. Not yet anyway. Q5. Do you have plans to make a feature, and would you be keen to make another documentary, or a fiction film? Yes and I would like to work on documentary first, then explore the combination of both fiction and non-fiction, and then fiction. Why in this order? Because I suspect I am better at dealing with something that is real and already in existence at the moment. Furthermore, as someone new in the filmmaking scene, completing a documentary is possible by myself - of course not without some help from some people - but to make a fictional piece, I would most likely need a lot more people. As more people get involved, the final product gets "further away" from me. So I guess I enjoy the intimacy of documentary filmmaking at the moment. After all, filmmaking is a lonely process and it could get quite lonesome at some point. July 16 Screening & Award History of Diminishing MemoriesBroadcasting History Oct 2006 Diminishing Memories, broadcasted on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s international television channel- Australia Network, “Compass” timeslot.
July 2006 Diminishing Memories officially selected by Korea’s Public Broadcaster EBS’s International Documentary Film Festival- EIDF. Hence, Diminishing Memories was broadcasted on the public educational television channel in South Korea (EBS).
Award History
Dec 2005 Diminishing Memories publicly screened at Substation (Singapore) the Best of First Take 2005, voted Best Film of the Sept 2005 First Take screening by the audience. First Take, a platform for new filmmakers to showcase their work and to exchange ideas with film lovers.
Nov/Dec 2005 Diminishing Memories nominated for the Best Documentary Award at the Asian Festival of First Films in Singapore, and awarded the Special Jury Commendation Award for exceptional documentary work.
April 2005 Diminishing Memories- Won the 19th Queensland New Filmmakers Awards for Best Tertiary Documentary (Australia).
Screening History
Sept-Nov 2008 Diminishing Memories I & II public-run at The Arts House with full house screenings for all 20 sessions. Initial 6 screenings sold-out within a week, additional screenings made available to cater for demand.
Dec 2006 Diminishing Memories, officially screened at Timbre, Sinema in Singapore.
Oct 2006 Diminishing Memories, broadcasted on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s international television channel – Australia Network, “Compass” timeslot.
Diminishing Memories officially screened at Taiwan International Documentary Festival (South-East Asia Section) in Taiwan.
Diminishing Memories FULL HOUSE screening at the National Museum of Singapore under the program of Cine Singapore.
July 2006 Diminishing Memories officially selected by Korea’s Public Broadcaster EBS’s International Documentary Film Festival- EIDF. Hence, Diminishing Memories was broadcasted on the public educational television channel in South Korea.
June 2006 Diminishing Memories officially screened at the EnviroFest 06 (Environmental Festival) in Singapore, Toa Payoh HDB HUB.
May 2006 Diminishing Memories officially screened at Dokfest- International Dokumentarfilmfestival Munchen (Germany).
Diminishing Memories officially screened at the Asian Civilisations Museum, for the event of International Museum Day in Singapore.
April 2006 Diminishing Memories officially screened at Commonwealth Film Festival (Manchester, UK).
March 2006 Diminishing Memories officially screened at Nanyang Technological University Film Festival- i Focal (Singapore).
Feb 2006 Diminishing Memories officially screened at De Vista Navarra International Documentary Film Festival (Spain).
Dec 2005 Diminishing Memories publicly screened at Substation (Singapore) the Best of First Take 2005, voted Best Film of the Sept 2005 First Take screening by the audience. First Take, a platform for new filmmakers to showcase their work and to exchange ideas with film lovers.
Nov/Dec 2005 Diminishing Memories nominated for the Best Documentary Award at the Asian Festival of First Films in Singapore, and awarded the Special Jury Commendation Award for exceptional documentary work.
Oct 2005 Diminishing Memories officially screened at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (New Asian Currents) in Japan.
Sept 2005 Diminishing Memories screened at First Take, A Moving Images Programme – Substation (Singapore).
Aug 2005 Diminishing Memories accepted by the Asian Film Archive (Reel Emergency Project 1) in Singapore, for film preservation and to be featured as one of their collections on their online database (launched in Sept 2005).
April 2005 Diminishing Memories- Won the 19th Queensland New Filmmakers Awards for Best Tertiary Documentary (Australia).
April 2005 Diminishing Memories officially screened at the 18th Singapore International Film Festival.
Official Distributor: Journeyman PicturesJourneyman Pictures: Official World-wide Distributor for Diminishing Memories, English 50mins version. VHS/DVD available on: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=56167
Contact Person: Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Marketing and Development Journeyman Pictures Tel: +44 (0) 208 941 9994 Fax: +44 (0) 208 941 9899 info@journeyman.tv http://www.journeyman.tv/ 75A Walton Road East Molesey, Surrey KT80DP United Kingdom Production InformationYear of production: 2004-2005 Date of completion: Feb 2005 Languages: English, Mandarin, Teochew Subtitled: English Versions: Chinese 50mins, English 50mins, English 27mins Shooting Format: DVCam (PAL) Sound: Stereo Director’s BiographyEng Yee Peng was nominated for The Singapore Women’s Weekly’s Great Women Of Our Time Awards 2009. She graduated from Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) with a Bachelor Degree in Digital Media Production with First Class Honours. She completed her first documentary- Diminishing Memories in 2005. The film was broadcast on South Korea’s national educational channel (EBS) and Australia's international television channel (Australia Network) in 2006. Diminishing Memories won the Best Tertiary Documentary at the Queensland New Filmmakers Award competition in Australia. It was also nominated for Best Documentary and was awarded the Special Jury Commendation Award at the Asian Festival of First Films in 2005. Diminishing Memories was officially screened at international film festivals in countries such as United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.
Prior to her studies, Yee Peng was an Assistant Producer and a Studio Director with MediaCorp News for almost 5 years. She has since been working as a Director/Writer on programmes commissioned by the Media Corporation of Singapore (MediaCorp). Yee Peng is now focusing on video editing, and writes weekly columns for the Singapore Chinese mainstream newspaper- Lian He Zao Bao (联合早报副刊——《四方八面》专栏). Yee Peng is also a weekly guest of 95.8FM Capital radio show at noon and is an Associate Artist (Film) with The Substation in Singapore.
Yee Peng’s latest film, Diminishing Memories II proved to be a successful sequel to her previous film, Diminishing Memories. The public run of Diminishing Memories and Diminishing Memories II at The Arts House received an overwhelming response from the public. All screenings were sold out from September to November 2008.
关于翁燕萍 翁燕萍被一本女性杂志- The Singapore Women’s Weekly 推选为 Great Women Of Our Time Awards 2009 的入围者之一。燕萍毕业于澳洲Griffith University，并考获数码媒体制作第一等荣誉学士学位。《悄逝的记忆》是燕萍在2005年制作的首部作品，并在国外获得肯定。《悄逝的记忆》在2006年里就分别在韩国的国家教育频道(EBS)，及澳洲电视台(Australia Broadcasting Corporation)的国际电视频道(Australia Network)上播映。《悄逝的记忆》在澳洲昆士兰州的一个电影新人奖的竞赛中夺得《最佳大专学府纪录片奖》（Best Tertiary Documentary，Queensland New Filmmakers Award）。同时，也入围2005年度，第一届亚裔首作电影节（Asian Festival of First Films）的《最佳纪录片奖》，并荣获《最佳评审推荐奖》。《悄逝的记忆》也受邀在英国、西班牙、德国、日本、韩国、台湾及新加坡的国际电影展上放映。
出国深造前，燕萍曾在新传媒新闻当过助导和导播长达五年。之后，也以编导的身份为新传媒机构制作电视节目。目前，燕萍则专著于影像剪接的工作，也是联合早报副刊——《四方八面》的专栏作者。燕萍是电力站所支持与推荐的（电影）艺术家之一（Film Associate Artist, The Substation）。
燕萍的最新作品——《悄逝的记忆》和《悄逝的记忆2》于2008年9月至11月份在艺术之家的公映也获得了公众的热烈回响。所有门票在放映期间全部售完，每场都爆满。 Crew ListProducer, Director, Writer- Eng Yee Peng English Scrpt Consultant- Robin Lee Translation Consultant- Chen Chiau Hong Video & Sound recording, editing- Eng Yee Peng Music Composer/Post Sound Consultant- Daniel Fournier Animator- Carolyn Gardiner Synopsis: Diminishing Memories 悄逝的记忆Singapore’s economy is one of the strongest in Asia. However, has anyone contemplated what Singapore’s prosperity has been built on? Since 1960s, the government started resettling people from all over the country to make way for industrialisation. Decades have now passed and villages eventually replaced by tall buildings. Today, there are no more villages left in Singapore. What is at stake now is the living memories of village life in Singapore are dying. This film takes you on a personal journey with me, the filmmaker, to recollect my childhood memories of living in Lim Chu Kang, a village that has already died and its spirit dispersed. 今天的新加坡已被发展为亚洲经济强国之一。但在几十年的迅速发展中，它的人民曾做出了怎样的牺牲？在光鲜华丽的背后，它背负着的又是什么样的代价？打从六十年代开始，新加坡政府为了经济发展而逐步展开全岛性的搬迁计划。在这过程中，居住在乡村的各个居民都被逼迁移，以便配合工业化的发展。有建设，就会有毁灭。今天，乡村在新加坡早已不复存在。于是，本片制作人通过个人式的拍摄手法，试图把观众带回到她从小生长的地方——林厝港。纵然那个村落、地方、还有属于那里的团体精神其实早已经死了，但曾经住过那里的人的记忆还没死，虽然也只是直到他们还活着的那一刻… … 可悲的是新加坡的新一代都不知道自己错过了什么。一个被毁灭了的村落，一个被强行夺走的童年，有关于乡村的所有记忆，正悄悄的消逝当中。 |
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