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Dream Chaser

 

獵夢者 Dream Chaser from Wai Yim WONG on Vimeo.

The 4th June 2004, Tian Jin. 二零零四年六月四日,天津

2004年,我在天津美院任職數字媒體藝術系的教授和系主任,剛到任閒著無事,到處蹓躂,認識了另外一個系的學生:一年制的成人油畫研修班。他們要求我拍一個短片在他們的畢業展覽播放,場館是北京師範大學。我故意在片尾打出「六月四日」的字幕,竟然給我過關在北京播放了「六月四日」。
特此記念與我一起拍此短片的畫家周海毅。後來我必須逃離天津,我等到一個機會:學校派我往上海雙年展,我在夜車承著其他教授睡覺當兒,在某個車站下了車,然後逃回天津躲了一星期,之後回到香港,期間海毅幫了我很多。一年之後,在他的個展前一晚,海毅於自己的畫室心臟病發身亡,死時才二十六歲。他一直在這黑暗的體糸內很壓抑。

I was Dean & Professor in a department of digital art media of The National Art Academy of Tianjin in 2004. I met those people when I just arrived there. They're mature students in 1 year course of "oil painting special training". They asked me to produced a short documentary for their graduation show in Beijing. The venue was Beijing Normal University. I put a subtitle: "The 4th June" at the end of the documentary. It was unexpected that my video could be shown in Beijing.
Hereby remember painter Zhou Hai Yi, who helped me a lot when I escaped from Tian Jin. Unfortunately He died in his age of 26, just a night before the opening of his solo exhibition.