媒介即讯息——彼得·格林纳威访谈

Interview with Peter Greenaway:The Medium is the Message

本采访围绕数字媒体与电影的关系以及电影作为一门技术驱动而非文本导向艺术的相关创作问题。格林纳威认为电影艺术已经告别了胶片时代,电影院也不再是最普遍的观影场所。这种转变最突出的特征便是电视语言对电影的介入,它也将成为电影艺术的未来,最终实现电影语言的自主性。从商业美学的角度来看,虽然观众的欣赏水平常常落后于最先进的技术,但每一位电影制作人都应该有自己的技术。格林纳威将艺术家拉下"超级英雄"的神坛,强调设备对组织电影可能性的巨大影响。

This interview centers on relations between the digital media and film, as well as the relative creation issues of film as a technology driven art rather than a text-oriented one. Greenaway assumes that the age of film for cinema was over, and what is more, a cinema is no longer the most popular occasion for watching a movie.The most characteristic feature of this transition is the intrusion of TV language to cinema, which will become the future of cinema in the end and achieve the autonomy of cinema language. Even though, from the perspective of commercial aesthetics, audiermes＇ appreciation is always left behind the state of the art, every filmmaker ought to have his own technology. Greenaway knocks artists from the very pedestal of ＂superhero＂, and emphasizes that the equipment is making tremendous changes in the possibilities to organize cinema.