空籠 Empty Cage 2001

导演的话：

２００１年的某一天，在深圳，我正要再一次搬家，但在我居住的大厦楼下，一个或许是流浪者的身份不明的奇怪女孩吸引了我的注意。她一整天就呆在一根电线杆底下，不识字却一整天都在看着同一张报纸，到了晚上，她就睡在电线杆下了，那张报纸是她这晚的床单。而一只没有了底的空鸟笼，她一直宝贝似的带在身边，不知对她意味着什么？但可以确定的是：这只空鸟笼对她非常重要。我想这也许是她唯一可以牢牢抓住的具有某种家的意味的东西。当然，这只是一种猜测。 而对于我来说：拍摄过程中对“空”的感受十分强烈——女孩周围如风般来来去去、聚聚散散的路人，看似凝固却飞逝的时间。关于同情和冷漠……关于缓慢和急速……关于执着与随机……一切又仿佛可被一笔“空空”带过。

蒋志 2001

Word of the Director

One day in 2001, just before the day I was about to move again in Shenzhen, a strange homeless girl caught my attention. She stayed under a wire pole in front of my building, reading the same piece of newspaper though she held it up-side-down sometimes. When the night fell, she went to sleep under the pole covering herself with the newspaper. She carried an empty and bottomless bird cage with her all the time like some kind of treasure. It is certain that the empty cage meant a lot to her. I am not sure what it means to her, maybe it is the only thing that she can take hold of, it is a symbol of home. Of course, this is only my guess. For me, the feeling of emptiness is very strong when I shot the film. Passengers passing by the girl like winds, time that looks still by flies away like an arrow…About sympathy and indifferent, about slowness and rapidity…about consistence and random…Everything seems to be about emptiness.

Jiang Zhi 2001