Out Of Frame 片甲不留 (2015) (Region Free DVD) (English Subtitled)

Region Coding: Region Free

Starring:  
Colin Wong 王柏倫 
Kristy Shan 單麒汶青 
Miao Miao 繆藝豪 
Yuan Li 袁麗
Ma Tiao 馬條 

Director:  
Kwok Wai Lun 郭偉倫

Audio Tracks:  
Dolby Digital

Language:  
Mandarin 國語

Subtitles: 
English, Traditional Chinese 繁體中文字幕

Running Time: 
95 minutes

Distributor: 
Kam & Ronson Enterprise Co., Ltd. (HK)

Release Date:
3 Oct 2019

Synopsis:
Over the years, Tang has insisted on painting in black. These so-called 'Black Paintings' are created by splashing black paint on black canvases; thus, all finished works look the same. Like most of the artists, he lives hand-to-mouth by selling his paintings one at a time. Life in the East Village is not any easier. There are tens of thousands of artists competing for an elusive kind of breakthrough. Tang, his fellow artists and dear friend Gold, must seize every single chance. However, the first exhibition they try to organise is shut down by the government. Tang starts to use his own blood to create Black Paintings as a protest to all kinds of violence and oppression. A female filmmaker Mary comes to the East Village to make a documentary called Real Artist and gradually becomes Tang’s anchor. Unfortunately, Tang was once again arrested during a private party/exhibition organised by Mary. Since then Tang starts to utilize the form of 'Performance Art' and his own body to express his reflections on this ruthless world. Tang finds the audacity to unleash his inner powers to fight for his artistic ideals till the end, amidst extreme oppression and introspective struggles, and becomes a prototype of free spirit. Director’s Statement: In China, many artists, i.e. poets, writers, painters, filmmakers, are at high-risk ... of course, not everyone will get into trouble, as long as you obey the rules of the game. For me, the essential nature of art is precisely NOT to subject to any authority or institutions. But this principle does not apply in China. Official shackles on the freedom of expression and more insidiously, self-censorship both suppress the nature of the genuine artist. Market value becomes the only recognised value in the art world. Certain factions of society might even believe that these so-called ‘troublesome artists’ are only putting on a political show to profit themselves and so on. I do not want to argue with them. Shouldn’t we focus our attention to discuss and respect the art itself, rather than to suspect the artist’s intention, in the first place?

唐平多年一直堅持畫黑畫。所謂的「黑畫」就是在黑色的背景上用黑色的顏料作畫，所有完成的作品都是同一個模樣。像大多數藝術家一樣，他過着賣一幅畫過一天的生活。生活在東莊絕不容易，要在成千上萬的藝術家之中突圍而出，唐平和好友黃金甲都得抓緊任何機會，但他們在東莊辦的第一個畫展便已遭遇政府查封。唐平開始用鮮血創作黑畫，以表達對種種暴力的抗議。黃金甲則因一個女人的幫助而扶搖直上。女導演瑪麗為拍一部《真實的藝術家》紀錄片來到東莊，漸漸成為了唐平的精神支柱。在瑪麗的私人派對展覽中，唐平再次被公安拘留，其後進一步以行為藝術和身體表達自己對世道的反思。他只能在極度壓迫中釋放自己的能量，成就了為追求藝術理想而抗爭到底的典型人物。導演闡述：在中國，很多自由職業成為了高危職業，包括了詩人、作家、藝術家、導演等。當然不是每個人都會遇上麻煩，只要你聽話就可以了。藝術家的屬性本身就不服從於任何體制之下，這對很多人來說，都是不能理解的。不理解的人更會認為，「不聽話的藝術家」只是為了利用政治來炒作。但我不想爭辯這些。因為我認為應該把精力放在討論藝術作品的高低，而不是去爭論他們的意圖。對自由表達的桎梏與自我審查泯滅了藝術家的天性，把藝術的價值等同市場的價值。這也是當代中國藝術一種特殊的生態，也是《片甲不留》要反思的。


movie trailer (English subtitled)