The Clock 阿霞的掛鐘

TAIWAN｜2011 | Short, Drama｜ 19 mins

Director: SINGING CHEN 陳芯宜

 

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2011 Golden Horse Film Festival, Gala Premiere ("When yesterday comes")
2012 Taipei Film Award, in competition ("The Clock")
2012 Kaohsiung Film Festival, International Short Film Competition, Best selection Award ("The Clock")
2012 International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg, in competition,  Special Mention ("When yesterday comes")
2012 Hangzhou Asian Film Festival ("When yesterday comes")
2012 Hong Kong Asia Film Festival ("When yesterday comes")

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SYNOPSIS:

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The old community is going to be regenerated. Hsia who suffers from dementia moves into her daughter’s leaving the home she’s lived all her life and the old community behind. Chuang is Hsia’s old neighbor; he has been looking after Hsia and her daughter since Hsia’s husband died. One day, with a key to an unknown door hung around her neck, Hsia comes back to the old community looking for Chuang.

 

The memories are disappearing both in the minds of the elderly who suffer from dementia and before the eyes of the young. The cities are changing at the rate faster than the loss of memories in the elderly’s heads. In that case, what is memory? Director Chen Singing tries to link the elderly who suffer from dementia with the disappearing memories of the cities and to understand how the elderly feel when facing the rapid changes in society.

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老社區要都更了，患有失智症的阿霞被女兒接去同住，離開住了一輩子的家，也離開了關於老莊的所有記憶。老莊是阿霞的老鄰居，在阿霞丈夫過世後，默默照顧她母女倆。這天，阿霞突然逃離了新家，脖子上掛著一把不知要開哪一扇門的鑰匙，跑回老社區找老莊…

 

記憶一點一點的消失了，不論在失智老人腦海中，亦或在未失智者的眼前。城市變化的速度，早趕過了老人記憶消失的速度，那，記憶是什麼？導演陳芯宜試圖將失智老人、與城市空間記憶的消失做聯結，感受老人面對快速變化的心境。

 

 

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