小鎮里奇蘭

【亞洲首映Asian Premiere】

小鎮里奇蘭 Richland

艾琳．路茲堤克 Irene LUSZTIG｜美國 United States｜2023｜DCP｜Colour｜93 min

里奇蘭，一座位於華盛頓州的小鎮，因緊鄰美國曼哈頓計畫時用來處理核廢料的漢福德區，而成為核能產業相關人員的家園，居民對當地標誌「核爆蕈狀雲」引以為傲；另一面向，當地原住民族卻因此遭國安名義驅離，地球彼端有人因核爆而痛苦至今。不知自己長期暴露在放射性物質風險裡的小鎮居民，如今會如何看待核能的種種爭議及其歷史性問題？

艾琳．盧斯堤格：「我的父母當年逃離希奧塞斯統治的羅馬尼亞，到美國尋求政治庇護，我是在美國出生的第一代。在製作我的第一部長片時，期間長達五年並極其切身地挖掘家族不為人知的歷史，使我學習到怎麼以關懷與同理心，協助他人面對過往傷痛。自此之後，我也將拍片工作視為一種細緻調解人們與其過去的方法。

漢福德的故事已經有許多記者、作家與反核人士寫過，但他們往往是從調查報告的視角出發，目的只想揭露與批判核武工業。當我開始在里奇蘭投入這項長年拍攝計畫，耐心聆聽居民心聲、跟他們建立友善關係時，我並不想因此忽視核武工業對環境和居民健康造成的傷害，只不過我同時也想呈現漢福德工人們的故事。儘管他們的政治立場通常與我相左，可是我仍想透過細心聆聽，讓他們有尊嚴地表達自己的故事。

這部作品不打算提供簡單的答案、政策立場、純粹批判核武工業或訪問核能專家。相反地，影片的樣貌遠比上述複雜，它耐心地展開一處空間，讓不同聲音和立場得以並存，以電影形式讓多方交錯的故事在此匯流。我們正處於由「否認」深刻建構型塑的歷史時刻，因此這項計畫更顯迫切，因為它探討的是我們的感受和信仰體系。我拍攝《小鎮里奇蘭》的意圖不是營造擁核與反核的二元對立，或是填塞許多容易斷章取義的片段；而是想讓片子處於一個使人感到不安、模糊，但又切身的位置，從而讓人察覺到各種否認不同立場的方式。」

Richland offers a prismatic portrayal of the nuclear company town’s identity, proud of its role in the Manhattan Project. The film examines societal normalisation of past violence, blending archival past with present observations. It meditates on home, safety, whiteness, and deep time, exploring the community's reliance on its nuclear heritage.

‘I am a first-generation American whose parents fled Ceaucescu’s Romania as political asylum-seekers. Through the process of making my first feature film, an intimate five-year project excavating my own family’s hidden history, I learned how to facilitate people’s confrontations with painful histories with care and empathy. Since then, I’ve come to understand my work as a filmmaker and as a form of delicate mediation between people and their pasts.

‘While a number of journalists, writers, and anti-nuclear activists have taken on the Hanford story, it is often told through an investigative lens where the aim is to expose and criticise the nuclear weapons industry. As I embarked on a multi-year process of patient relationship-building and community listening in Richland, I didn’t want to shy away from the tremendous environmental and human costs of nuclear arms manufacturing, but, at the same time, I also wanted to represent the stories of Hanford workers—people whose politics often diverge drastically from my own—with dignity and generous listening. 

‘Richland does not provide easy answers, a policy position, a simple critique of the nuclear industry, or interviews with nuclear experts. Instead, it does the messier work of creating a patiently unfolding space where divergent voices and positions can co-exist, investing in a cinematic form that gently holds multiple entangled histories in one place. We are living at a moment in history that is deeply structured by human denial, and it is in the shadow of this moment that this project about feelings and belief systems feels urgent. Rather than creating an onscreen world of pro-nuclear vs. anti-nuclear binaries and easily digested soundbites, my intention with Richland is to inhabit a more uncomfortable, intimate, and ambivalent space that ultimately points to the ways that each of us holds denial close’. - Irene LUSZTIG

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