石头纪

一个脑海充满哲思的人，面对400吨的石头以及原始空间与时间的思考。 当艺术家展望向我讲述他的作品"我的宇宙"草图时，我的脑海中只能形成模糊的概念。他计画爆破一块巨石，用高速摄像机从六个不同角度拍摄爆炸的场面，然後将六面体视频录影装置与碎石不锈钢进行重组实验。他让我拍摄下整个过程，并说，"人类是不可能知道宇宙的起源的。"我对此表示赞同，决意参与。展望执行着他的计画，寻找石头，聘请爆破专家，协调高速摄影团体。但当当地员警发现一名外籍"记者"正在对这个过程进行记录拍摄时，村支书收回了展望在其管辖范围内进行大规模爆破活动的许可。原本沉浸於对天际星体的冥想中的艺术家展望此时被迫转向与地方官员的周旋。几费周章，好事多磨，展望最後还是争取到了爆破活动进行的许可，过程实属不易。到底是对西方理性与科学的嘲讽？找寻生命的意义？展现当代中国思想？抑或仅是展望本人博杂思想体系中的一点闪光？ 纪录片《石头纪》之中，宇宙与观念、物质、社会现实以意外、力气的方式互相遭遇。 When artist Zhan Wang showed Director Richard Widmer his first sketches for the "My Universe" project, the filmmaker could barely grasp his idea. Zhan wanted to blow-up a huge rock, film the explosion from six sides in ultra slow motion, and then recreate the experiment with a six-sided video installation and rock fragments made of stainless steel. And he wanted the entire process filmed. "Humans cannot possibly understand the origin of the universe," hypothesized Zhan Wang, who invited the filmmaker to go along for the ride. Zhan Wang finds his rock, hires pyrotechnics specialists, and coordinates his high-speed video team, but when local police discover that a foreign "journalist" is recording the proceedings, the villages Party Secretary refuses Zhan Wang permission to make a large-scale explosion within his jurisdiction. Instead of contemplating the stars in heaven, Zhan Wang is forced to grapple with local politics. And when Zhan Wang finally wins permission, even the heavens seem to conspire against him. Whether or not you believe in God, recreating the Big Bang will not be such a simple matter. Mocking Western reason and science? Searching for the meaning of life? Projecting a contemporary Chinese ideology? Or is Zhan Wang himself merely a single point of light shot from its source into eternity? LEGEND OF THE STONE tells the story of an artistic encounter with the universe and the unexpected collision of conceptual, material and social reality.