剧情介绍
这是一部16mm黑白胶片散文电影，灵感来源于Stephen Watts的书《Republic Of Dogs / Republic Of Birds》。此片探索着风景、历史、记忆以及言语的力量。这是一种庆祝，也是一种抵抗。
For four decades, poet, translator and activist Stephen Watts has been the quietly urgent, profoundly committed voice of the marginalised and the overlooked, whether person or place. Now he has found his collaborative equal in the engaged 16mm filmmaker Huw Wahl, who has translated the text of Watt's book-length prose poem Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds into a luminous feature-length documentary essay of remarkable beauty and spirited attention. Anchored in Watts' biography and lines, it explores the larger truths of being and the calibrations of response to often hard earned, lived experience. Considering the changing landscapes of settlement in London's East End and Scottish islands, the destruction of working-class culture and an attendant sense of the collective, the film and its writing are themselves forms of cultural activism: elegy, celebration and a toolkit for ongoing resistance. Never rhetorical, always endowed with a profound empathy and a deep sense of relation - to time, place and human struggle - The Republics is one of the most impressive artists' films of recent years, whose own poetry speaks as honestly and eloquently as that of the writer it portrays.
essay film，稍微枯燥了些，适合美术馆
3.5，后面有段秀藏书太过分了，原版阿赫玛托娃全集送我吧...
散文式自白
这两年为什么层出不穷黑白+胶片+一个老人的纪录片？这部恕我无法进入。
企图在自然与城市以及两者交集处寻找诗意而非诗人传记。与掬水月在手里的空镜比起来，这里面的捕捉更加细致，设计里也可以看出巧思。
小众的电影果然两级分化严重，意识的流动一直存在于主观层面，虽然其呈现形式于表象上是客观的，但从发起者到接收者之间会出现如神经般交错的分岔——导演包含私心的展示，观众混杂私心的联想，都不过是游走于情感河流中的水花，转瞬即逝。
2020IDF果然是我审美不够，观看睡了！太深奥，读不懂。
三星半。其实观影体验来说，诗歌与电影依旧是割裂的，但这大概是语言沟通问题，总之，比同期某个讲中国诗人的纪录片好
身体太累了，从头睡到尾...
虽然前夜没睡好中途哈欠不断 但是个人非常喜欢 ；16mm胶片娓娓道来一部散文诗 温柔细腻 自由委婉 ；摄影/建筑/诗歌/电影/写作各种形式融合的很好很诗意 就像Stephen Watts诗歌本身一样 想起John Berger想起阿巴斯
201017第四屆IDF。最後15分鐘的我終於沒忍著睡去。但尊重作者想要表達的。去做去展現就是該被鼓舞的。
导演说诗人在英国不算著名，但有很多名作家喜欢他的诗。诗人在纪录片结构等方面也帮了导演很多。
最直观感受是浪费了不少16mm胶片 不太接受这样过于重复的单一呈现
IDF 2020 在某种意义上很私人，让我想到了自己在爱尔兰和伦敦去过的地方，当下的念白与知觉的记忆，混沌地揉成成一团没有情绪的深秋水雾。对片名以及片名的翻译有些疑惑。
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