一部電影的筆記 Notes for a Film

伊格納西歐．阿奎洛 Ignacio AGÜERO｜智利 Chile、法國 France｜2022｜DCP｜Colour, B&W｜103 min

1889 年，年輕的比利時土木工程師遠赴南美，受僱建造一條穿越馬普切人家園的鐵路⋯⋯。紀錄片大師阿奎洛重返被智利政府掠奪的原住民土地，以工程師的日記為基底，找來白人演員與原民後裔同框演出，透過後設式的表演指導、紀實訪談，以凝鍊的黑白攝影和檔案影像，揉雜出虛實參半的殖民史情境，叩問國族深處的矛盾。

伊格納西歐．阿奎洛：「古斯塔瓦尼里為了鐵路建造工程，來到智利南方的阿勞坎尼亞，他由現已不復存在的安戈爾車站下車，就此穿梭於今昔。處於不同時空之間，他於19世紀末建造的一切已盡被皮諾契政權摧毀殆盡。若這是一部劇情片，他將抵達一座由美術組搭出的車站場景；然而這是紀錄片，故他下車之處乃一片廢墟。奠基於瓦尼里的日記《阿勞坎尼亞十年》一書，本片透過這名真實人物及扮演他的演員，探究鐵路如何侵入原始荒野，資本主義又如何被帶入智利原住民族的傳統領域。紀錄片的攝製環節也被納入其中：僅只一人穿著的舊時古裝、一匹孤馬，和一支兼任臨演及工作人員的劇組團隊。藉由這些手法，這部片得以翻玩電影的可能性，成為拍攝者與觀看者的一次有趣經驗。」

Belgian engineer Gustave Verniory went to Chile in 1889 to build the railway through the Mapuche territory. Freely based on Verniory’s diary, director Ignacio Agüero explores the act of filming and proposes a singular way of seeing this tumultuous past and the natural and human geography of his country.

‘When Gustave Verniory arrives in Chile to work as an engineer on the railroad construction in the Araucania territory, in the south of the country, he gets off at a station—Angol Station—which no longer exists. He travels in the past and abroad the present. In between, everything he built at the end of the 19th century was destroyed as soon as Pinochet’s dictatorship began. If this had been fiction, Verniory would have arrived, in the film, at a station reconstructed by set builders. But it is a documentary, so he arrives at a station in ruins. 

‘Based on the texts from the book Ten Years in Araucania, Verniory’s diary, the film explores, through the character as well as through the actor portraying him, the railroad’s penetration of the wilderness and the introduction of capitalism into Chile’s indigenous territory. It does so with the economics of a documentary: period clothing for just one person, a single horse, and a film crew that simultaneously act as both crew members and extras. 

‘Thus, the film is able to explore history through the cinema’s playful possibilities, becoming a fascinating experience for those making it as well as those watching.’ - Ignacio AGÜERO 

2022 Special Mention, IDFA 阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片影展特別提及

2023 Award of Excellence, Yamagata IDFF 山形國際紀錄片影展國際競賽優秀賞

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