| 王佩瑄於2013年離開居住八年的美國回到台灣，開始重新認識台灣與其周邊的香港、東南亞等地，以及在其中生活的人們。〈追月〉一詞來自英國的諺語「月光下的遷移」，意指在深夜裡帶著全部家當，靜悄悄而快速地離開家園以逃避房租。王佩瑄以此詞彙的象徵意義作為此件作品的核心概念，探討跨界域文化與個人身份、土地認同間的微妙關係。影片2016年拍攝於台灣、香港、泰國等地，集結了來自英國／澳洲的年長旅人、落腳香港的泰國前家務工、孟加拉尋求庇護者浪子，以及寄居台灣的印尼看護。透過這些離散者的故事——關於新生兒、所愛的人、希望與恐懼、一生追尋的信仰……等，我們跟隨著這些不安於室的謙卑身體，跨越疆域與國界，開始想像由勞動與移動所串聯、創造的共同生命經驗與軌跡。 |
Pei-Hsuan WANG left the United States, where she had lived for 8 years, and returned to Taiwan in 2013. She started to learn once again about Taiwan and the neighboring Honk Kong and Southeast Asia, along with the people. A Moonlight Flit derives from a British saying, meaning to leave secretly and quietly with all one has to avoid paying rent. WANG takes the symbolic meaning of the term as the core concept of the work, so as to investigate the intricate relationship among inter-disciplinary culture, personal identity, and the identity of land. The film was shot in 2016 at places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Thailand, with a senior traveler from UK/Australia, a former domestic worker from Thailand to Hong Kong, a wanderer that seeks asylum in Bangladesh, and an Indonesian caretaker lives in Taiwan. Through the stories of these displaced people – about new-born baby, the beloved one, hope and fear, the faith worth life-long pursuit, etc. We shall follow the restless, humble figures to cross over territories and borders, and picture the shared life experiences and traces connected and created by labor as well as movement. |
