导演: 史蒂芬·奎 / 狄莫瑞·奎
类型: 短片
官方网站: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/498178
制片国家/地区: 英国
语言: 英语
上映日期: 2003-10-10
片长: 21 分钟
IMDb链接: tt0079636
人工夜的剧情简介 · · · · · ·
As with much of their later work, it‘s impossible to provide a coherent synopsis of the earliest surviving film by the Brothers Quay, as Nocturna Artificialia defies attempts at verbal encapsulation at every turn. The Quays themselves acknowledged this when they said "as for what is called the scenario, at most we have only a limited musical sense of its trajectory, and we tend to be permanently open to vast uncertainties, mistakes, disorientations, as though lying in wait to trap the slightest fugitive ‘encounter‘."
It consists of impressions of a man, a tram and an unidentified city at night (the opening titles identify a specific Brussels street, but the ambience seems East European). Much of it seems to be the man‘s dream, deriving from a fixation with specific objects relating to the tram (notably its pantograph) and a more general evocation of the streets at night, but even when he appears to awaken at the end after experiencing a some kind of revelation, he finds tramlines running through the middle of his room.
Everything is glimpsed or half-heard: light and shade seem as tangible as the more solidified reality (a spellbinding sequence sees his arm caressed by passing shadows, a brief Bartókian musical motif sounding as they touch). Tension is created not through narrative but through movement (by tram and camera, in parallel or in opposition), shifting focus, shadows moving across inanimate objects to bring them briefly into eerie life.
There‘s occasional recourse to religious imagery: at one point the tram passes through the interior of a cathedral, and then down a street named after the Crucifixion, but these elements seem as half-awake and half-remembered as everything else. Despite being presented in multiple languages, the eight intertitles are calculatedly cryptic ("Through gradually tightening avenues, I felt the ecstasy of something nameless"). It‘s a Surrealist film in the term‘s original sense - in that its imaginary landscape is equally populated by conscious and unconscious elements and little distinction is drawn between them.
Shot on 16mm and funded by the British Film Institute‘s Production Board, Nocturna Artificialia is a remarkably confident piece of work, the Quays surmounting obvious technical and budgetary limitations to create a private universe entirely out of their own recurring obsessions. Their later films may be more assured, but their roots are clearly visible here.
光影和音乐简直棒呆！Quay Bros最早期的作品，阴郁，粗砺，游走于幻境与现实之间，感觉Tim Burton肯定有受他们的影响。
光影和音乐简直棒呆！QuayBros最早期的作品，阴郁，粗砺，游走于幻境与现实之间，感觉TimBurton肯定有受他们的影响。
带有轨电车的架空东欧城市夜景。就是他俩好多早期画作里的意象。穿过大教堂那段太好看了。
光影很美，有种舞台剧的效果，第18分钟突然睁眼给我吓一跳，配乐带劲，其他没看懂。
教堂里行驶的红色电车，早期作品，时而抽象时而古典的风格，奇特的空间感已经出现了
阴郁的风格和配乐让人印象深刻。但是太过艺术，我全程梦游不知再讲些什么。。。
光和場景，藝術風格好鮮明，他們似乎很喜歡表達工業社會對人類的妨害命題
奎氏兄弟作品里的人偶们个个都活像被净化过灵魂的尸体。太美了。
金属敲击声像是刺在我的心口
风格诡异晦涩不知所云
奎氏兄弟第一部
不知道在讲什么
啥玩意儿？
