Rosales and Bing wanted to correspond with their respective filmic imaginaries, but in this case without using the epistolary recourse. Their idea was to create short stories that reflect two worlds that are geographically and culturally remote.
电影如蝴蝶,漂亮而短寿。千机万变抓住美好固已难能可贵,留住永恒之美,庶几无憾。印度气候潮热,多亏人称「奈尔先生」的印度电影保育之父,无数濒临损毁边缘的珍贵作品,得以保存修复。由门票收藏家变身菲林卫士,不避跋涉直入穷乡挽救烟没的电影,奈尔走过的路可有十万八千里?看着旧片重 温、各式制作公司商标的片头蒙太奇,印度电影史彷佛就在经他保留的影框之间无言揭示。遑论波兰大师赞禄西、斯里兰卡国宝培里斯等锦上添花的访谈,直构一场知性大丰收。
Henri Langlois, the French film preservation pioneer, had it easy compared to P. K. Nair. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India, has been instrumental in salvaging his country's cinematic heritage, from early silent films to regional cinema to even popular Hindi movies. He has also been a teacher to a host of filmmakers, including this documentary's director. Heartfelt and illuminating, this is a celebration of cinema and a man who spends his life safeguarding film for future generations.
Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.
Léon Masy sets off on board the boat that he built in his garage in Seraing to discover the activist's future. As he sails down the Meuse through today's landscape of old factories, he returns to the scene of a strike: that of 1960 when, for the last time, the lights of a rebellious region were reflected in the river's waters and when, also for the last time, he believed that his utopian dream would become a reality! Between the activist of twenty years earlier and his quest for a future, the boat's journey begins. A voyage between past and future: will he find his destination in the images of the activist of 1960?