神戲 The Immortal’s Play
彭家如 Peng Chia-ru
桃園人，東海建築系畢，赴紐約視覺藝術學院修習電影，自此投身於紀錄片和電影創作迄今。80年代末與友人合拍多部社運紀錄片。1995 年《台灣軍人》獲得金穗獎最佳紀錄片，代表作品有《青少年八家將》（1998）、《勇士》（2000）、《另一個家人》（2013）、《踏上帕拉林匹克之路》（2014）、《那個川島芳子》（2014）等。作品題材多與民俗文化與宗教相關。2016 年與賴麗君共同編導《神戲》。
Taoyuan native Peng Chia-ru graduated from Donghai University with a degree in architecture before studying film at the Visual School of Arts in New York. In the late 1980s, he was part of a collective that made documentaries about the pro-democracy movements of the time in Taiwan. Peng’s interest in Taiwan’s cultural practices, religion and social issues have been the subjects many of his films, which include “The Road to the Paraolympics” (2014). “The Immortal’s Play” is his latest work.
● 作品年表 Performances
1995《台灣軍人》
1998《青少年八家將》
2000《勇士》
2013《另一個家人》
2014《踏上帕拉林匹克之路》Road to Paralympic
2014《那個川島芳子》
2016《神戲》The Immortal’s Play
賴麗君 Lai Li-chun
嘉義民雄人，中國文化大學大傳系畢，從小就是歌仔戲戲迷。關注社會邊緣、女性議題。2002 年製作《山腳下的四庄番》，入選南方影展觀摩。2012 年在大愛電視台拍攝新住民紀錄片《在台灣站起》時發現來自越南的阮安妮，即決定以獨立製片方式，和同是歌仔戲迷的彭家如合作拍攝《神戲》，歷時三年紀錄安妮的歌仔戲生涯，以影像關注外籍配偶和女性角色的生存實況與歸屬焦慮。希望在老去前完成《嘉義三部曲》製作。
“Gezaixi” opera has been a lifelong interest of Lai Li-chun, a filmmaker and Chiayi County native who graduated from Chinese Culture University’s mass communications department. She first met Annie Yuan, the subject of “The Immortal’s Play,” in 2012 when Annie was the subject of a Da-Ai Television program on Taiwan’s “new immigrants.” She and co-director Peng Chia-ru spent three years documenting Annie’s life for “The Immortal’s Play.”
● 作品年表 Performances
2004《山腳下的四庄番》
2014《愛相隨》
2014《來自印尼的布袋戲操偶師》
2014《越南媳婦的古早味蛋糕》
2014《踏上帕拉林匹克之路》Road to Paralympic
2016《神戲》The Immortal’s Play
來自越南的阮安妮，自小夢想成為越南傳統戲劇明星，卻陰差陽錯成為國家馬戲團台柱。偶然來台表演，邂逅嘉義老戲班團長芳遠，也意外接續兒時的夢想。她花了兩年歲月學習深奧的歌仔戲，從一句國台語都不會，到挑起大梁成為戲班的當家花旦，就如安妮自己所說，她是註定要來唱歌仔戲的。然而，安妮的戲夢人生，附帶的是跌宕的命運。帶著長期洗腎的小女兒阿噹，隨戲班逐廟口而居的漂泊生活，一切辛酸衰憊只埋藏在艷麗舞台後的休息棚裡。野台戲隨著時代變遷凋敝，即使沒人看，沒有掌聲，安妮和戲班人仍為看不見的「神」賣力演出。本片隱約細微的影像敘事，以台越兩地歌謠貫穿四季，如小說般的迂迴手法，道出新住民在台灣的共同處境和心聲。
Annie Yuan says destiny led her to become a performer of “Gezaixi,” or traditional Taiwanese opera. Her extraordinary life as a Vietnamese immigrant to Taiwan is the subject of this documentary. As a child, Annie dreamed of becoming a star in traditional Vietnamese theater. Happenstance led her to joining the national circus instead. While on tour in Taiwan, she met Fang Yuan, the head of a Taiwanese gezaixi troupe, which proved to be a life-changing moment of fate. Two years later, she went from speaking not one word of either Taiwanese or Mandarin to playing the lead role in a touring Taiwanese opera troupe. She meets and marries a Taiwanese man, with whom she has a daughter. “The Immortal’s Play” is a novelistic look at a novelistic life: a life as one of Taiwan’s “new immigrants;” a life as a mother with a daughter who suffers from a serious illness; a life as a performer, one full of drama, joy and heartbreak.
▌影片介紹 Synopsis
▌導演介紹 Director
◎ 2016 | 台灣 Taiwan | 113 min
◎ 導演 Director | 彭家如 Peng Chia-Ru、賴麗君 Lai Li-Chun
2016 Golden Harvest Awards 金穗獎
2016 Women Make Waves Film Festival 台灣國際女性影展特獎
▌放映場次 Schedule
► 10/23（一）Mon. 19:00【導演映後座談 Director Q&A】 彭家如 Peng Chia-Ru、賴麗君 Lai Li-Chun /客家文化中心 3 樓放映室