宇宙首映 | 44剧场影像写作第一回（抽签定序）
44影像写作第一回
Theater 44 Collective Video Editing Project
六位参与者，抽签决定次序，每人有48小时接力时间完成剪辑和上传，传至下一位，十二天为一轮。休息，重新抽签后再进行一轮。2020年7月6日启动，两轮结束后，8月2日大家聚在一起线下看片，讨论后决定一位成员作最后一次剪辑，影像于8月5日凌晨成片。
Six participants. Order by lotting. Each has 48 hours to edit and upload and pass to the next one. Twelf days make one round. We started on July 6, and after two rounds and a break, everyone gather and watched the video on August 2. We decided one participant will do a final touch before the video is finalized on August 5.
参与者与次序：
张涵露 史镇豪 欧飞鸿 万青 阿珍 余果
万青 余果 阿珍 欧飞鸿 张涵露 史镇豪
---见面看片讨论---
阿珍
自本条推送发送起（3月29日晚10:27）在广州循环放映，结束时间未定
观看地址：海珠区国兴正街17号（靠近市二宫地铁站）
When: video looping in Guangzhou started from the moment you see this message and will be there for the amount of time we haven't decided
Where: 17 Guo Xing Zheng Stree, Haizhu District (Near the Second Workers' Palace Station on Line 2)
现场图 Installation view
影像截屏 Video Stills
《44月报》
写作和影像的集体创作实验
2020年3月，COVID-19疫情在中国尚未平息，在世界其他地方正在蔓延，44剧场的好朋友们此时身处世界各地，处在不同程度的无聊、恐慌、苦闷与错乱之中，开始了集体写作的实践。集体写作联合了隔离中的个体，我们将最初几期的主题定为“暴力辞典”，也尝试以此反刍并存档我们2019-2020年的感受。
每个参与者有一天即24小时的写作和编辑时间。在同一份文件上，后面任意一天的参与者都可以对前面已有的内容进行新的编写，包括扩展、删除、改动、增添文字和结构，增删图像、多媒体素材，设置附件或者超链接，乃至线上和线下任何可以被描述、被感知和被编辑的形式。你可能在《44月报》中读到：漫画、虚构及科幻、政府文件、真假难辨的历史文献、聊天记录、神预言、网络截屏……每一期写作持续两至三周，参与者在该期结束前有一天共同编辑的机会，然后定稿。截至目前，不同的参与者已经完成五期文本的写作。
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受到澳门牛房艺术空间展览的邀请后，部分第一期到第三期的参与者通过各自认领的方式，自由从前三期的内容中选取文本，构建角色和场景，组织剧本，并通过远程连线的方式，录制成广播剧《船，在海上》。
去年夏天，六个人组成的44月报影像组，也克服了软件、地理、美学的差异和障碍，接力剪辑，完成了其第一次航行。
44 Monthly: collective writing/editing experiments
The collective writing project 44 Monthly is a direct response to the COVID-19 when it widely hit Chinese cities early 2020. It’s a collaborative effort reacting to shared individualized quarantine experience. In accordance with the leaderless and open-to-all principles of Theater 44, 44 Monthly allows participants to be creative in their own ways, as long as they follow rules which were designed for the project to self-operate.
Six participants, each having 24 hours for one turnaround, edit on the same document in the order decided by lotting. They can add, delete, change any content—text or visuals—in the duration of their one day. After two turnarounds and a collective editing day, the edited document is finalized and ready for print.
In 44 Monthly you will find fiction, poetry, emoji, theory, cartoon, group chat screenshots, fake official documents, love letter, alternative histories… The first four issues of 44 Monthly is themed Dictionary of Violence, in response to events happening in 2019-2020, for instance protests in Hong Kong and around the globe, the #MeToo movement, and the pandemic. Collective writing is an attempt to archive and intercontextualize some of our common feelings during crises, as well as to connect and cure. Till this day, the fifth Monthly is sending to print.
For an exhibition invitation in Macau, some members adapted the stories and motifs in the first three issues into a radio show. Listen to the show (in Cantonese): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BuLPc0m47nimK_BJHd1-Krz1oW-8ddYB/view?usp=sharing
Another experiment under 44 Monthly is a collective video editing project with similar rules but different medium. The result is a 25 minute long video essay with keywords such as progress, farewell, self-transformation, and so on. Watch the video online: (link to be added)
About Theater 44
Theater 44 is a collaborative network taking theater as methodology with participants from many disciplines and around the globe. For each edition, Theater 44 unfolds a different topic by organizing workshops, performances, reading sessions, writing, design, and exhibition presentations. Rather than having a unified voice and rigid labor division, Theater 44 seeks to bring together individual creativities by designing conceptual frameworks that are leaderless and open to all. The creative process of Theater 44 maintains power decentralization as much as we can and follows the ethics of prefigurative politics. In early 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis, we start the ongoing collective writing project 44 Monthly.