影像信项目#0 | 我们期望另一种影像可以带来更真实的声音

随着国内逐渐进入到后疫情阶段，人们获得了一个距离，可以更为冷静和客观的去审视，反思这几个月来所经历的一切。也是在这个时候我们发出的影像信陆续抵达了美国和菲律宾。 

回顾想要发起这个项目的四月初，国内疫情尚未平息，美国疫情刚刚爆发，对于各国防疫政策的批评不绝于耳。当新闻在各种斗争和利益的搅和下越来越魔幻的时候，我们迫切地期望有另一种影像可以带给我们更真实的声音，它与主流不同，关注的是每个个体所面对的困难与伤痛。所以我们招集了世界各地VCD的艺术家朋友们，邀请他们用影像写信，传递给彼此。这些地区包括在疫情下备受关注的美国，英国，也有几乎没有登上过新闻的菲律宾。我们能希望这些由我们传递的陌生人之间的信件，可以让人们打破各自的偏见，对彼此和世界都多一些理解。 

在此，我们附上项目发起时给艺术家们的一封信，之后VCD影促会会陆续上传世界各地影像创作者们的回信。

亲爱的朋友，

你还好吗？

受到这次新冠疫情的影响，VCD的线下活动暂停已经两个月有余了，我们全体成员至今还在自我隔离办公的状态。在过去的两个月里，我们在互不相见的隔离中历经了太多情绪的起起伏伏，焦虑和恐慌，愤怒与忧伤。疫情让我们重新正视人类共同体的本质，但同样照见了和平时期被掩盖的差异与偏见。面对生命威胁，人们不得不重新去衡量各种价值，甚至让渡我们曾经要坚决守护的权利。我们面对的似乎是同一个敌人，但不同的文化背景、社会环境、经济条件又决定了我们面对的是完全不同的现实。

作为一家影像机构，我们注意到影像在这次疫情中也扮演了各样的角色，从朋友们日常交流，被迫网络直播的授课，记录现实的vlog到舆论工具都有……一段时间以来，我们也陆陆续续收到了一些艺术家朋友们的影像。这让我们想起VCD创建后的第一季影展时展出的作品《录像信》。寺山修司与谷川俊太郎两人以录像为信，用它记录日常，讨论生死，直至一方离开。

在这样一个传染病全球蔓延的背景下，真实的个体都在面对什么，思考什么，做了些什么？在主流的影像之外，是否存在另一种影像，它又是怎样的。这次，VCD愿化身邮差，把此刻所创造的影像、关于影像的思考、以影像为工具对疫情的思考、在疫情下对影像的思考一一传递出去。

如果您愿意参与到这次影像写作中，请您及时回复我们，我们会将您列出收件人名单，并在之后随机传递给您一封来自其他作者的影像。您这可以用影像回应它，或者仅仅回应我们的问题，VCD将负责为作品翻译字幕，并将它传递给世界某个角落的另一名创作者。同时，这些信件将被公布在VCD的平台免费与全世界分享。如果这些作品在展示传播的过程中产生任何收益，我们将即时公布并将其全部用于支持影像创作者。

 请回答以下问题：

• 你今天感觉怎样？身体或思想？

• 你在什么地方？

• 你目前的处境如何？

• 你正在注视什么？

• 这几天想得最多的问题？

• 你最近的时间感有变化吗？

期待你的回信！

VCD影促会

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Dear friend,

How are you?

Due to Covid-19, the offline activities of VCD have been suspended for more than two months, and now we are still working from home. In this period of isolation from each other, we've experienced many emotional ups and downs. There were so much anxiety and panic, anger and sadness. The pandemic has brought us back to the very essential mutuality of being human, but also has exposed the differences and prejudices that had been masked in peacetime. In such a life threatening situation, people are pushed to re-consider values and even yield certain rights we were once determined to defend. It seems that we are facing the same enemy, however our different cultural backgrounds, social environments and economic conditions determine that each one of us is facing a completely different reality.

As an organization for the moving images, we noticed that videos&films have played a variety of roles in this outbreak - daily communication with friends, live-streaming lectures though usually unwillingly, vlogs documenting realities, as well as mainstream media instrumentalized for certain purposes. Over this period, we've been getting videos/films from artist friends too. This reminds us of the touching work, Video Letter, exhibited during the very first season of VCD's Lumen Quarterly, "Prism Reality". Terayama Shuji and Tanigawa Juntaro exchanged videos as letters to each other, recording their everyday, discussing life and death, until one of them departed.

What are real individuals facing, thinking and doing in such a disaster? Those alternative moving images that are different from the mainstream ones, where are them and how will they look? VCD would like to take the role of a messenger, passing on the moving-image works of this particular time, thoughts about this medium, thoughts about moving images under the pandemic / the pandemic in moving images...

If you're willing to participate in this video letter 'writing', please reply to this email and let us know. We will add you to a list of recipients, and send you a video letter from another moving-image maker from the list. We hope you can respond with moving images, to either the video/film that you'll see, or simply to our questions in general. VCD will translate the subtitles for your work and pass it to another video/film maker somewhere in the world. Meanwhile, all the letters will be published onto VCD's platforms and shared with everyone. If there might be any income in the process of showcasing, it will be transparently reported immediately and all the revenue will be used to support moving image makers.

 Here are our questions: 

• How do you feel today, physically/mentally?

• Where are you?

• How is your current situation?

• What are you staring at?

• What questions are in your mind recently?

• Do you have any different sense of time lately?

Look forward to hearing from you!

Best,

VCD team

▲影像信#0截帧-北京-VCD影促会 

国际影像文化促进会World Organization Of Video Culture Development国际影像文化促进会（以下简称：VCD 影促会）于 2017 年夏天在北京正式成立。作为一个非营利机构，它致力于搭建一个观影、学习和交流的平台，向公众普及和推广艺术影像。一方面，VCD 影促会以举办影像资料展、文献展、讲座和学术研讨会等方式为更多人提供影像艺术教育；另一方面，它也通过自身平台挖掘更多优秀的影像艺术作品，在为其提供放映机会的同时助力青年影像艺术家持续创作。⬇️点击在B站看高清版影像信项目#0