雲端勞力士 Rolex in the Sky

     2022

  《雲端勞力士》錄像截圖 

修勞力士，飛空拍，還會玩youtube，鍾國泰是跳躍法定退休年齡的人，他導演和剪輯每一部自己的作品，除了是作品，也是人生的縮影，無論從哪一個角度觀看，他似乎都在留住時間，留著每一個細小的光陰。我們之間有很多不同處，我不會修錶，沒有經營自媒體，也無法做到每天去拍攝紀錄同一地點的變化；不過，我們又有很相似的地方，都是喜歡自己剪輯的導演，都被作品沒人要看這件事情給情緒勒索，多半時間熱愛自由，喜歡開著車尋找生活裡呼嘯而過的景況。

在 《雲端勞力士 Rolex in the Sky》 裡，我從影像中試著搓揉網路社群、 空拍和時間三個面向的關係，顯影出勞力士阿伯帶著浪漫、自由和漸變的生命狀態。

Chung Kuo-Tai repairs Rolex watches, flies drones, and runs a YouTube channel. He is someone who has leapt past the official retirement age. As both director and editor of his own videos, each work is not only a creation but also a reflection of his life. From any angle, he seems to be capturing time and preserving every fleeting moment.

We are quite different in many ways. I don’t know how to repair watches, I don’t manage a personal media channel, and I lack the discipline to document the same place every day. Yet we are also remarkably similar. We are both directors who prefer editing our own footage, both emotionally affected by the fear that no one may care to watch our work, and both enamored with freedom, often driving aimlessly in search of moments that race by in everyday life.

In Rolex in the Sky, I explore the interplay between online communities, aerial imagery, and the notion of time, rendering visible a man’s romantic, unbound, and slowly evolving existence through the lens of video.