看点好的吧！BETTER CINEMA WEDNESDAY · 13

​周三（7/15）晚 7 点30，我们将放映《大卫的日记》（David Holzman's Diary，1967）。这部作品是美国独立电影运动初期最具代表性的作品之一，也融合了“真实电影”（Cinéma Vérité）、“直接电影”（Direct Cinema）、实验电影与元电影的特征。

​影片讲述了失业青年大卫受到戈达尔“电影是每秒24帧的真实“ ("La photographie, c'est la vérité, et le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde." ) 的名言启发，决定拿起一台便携式摄影机，将自己的日常生活拍成一部电影。他不断拍摄自己的女友、邻居和纽约街头，试图借由摄影机寻找生活的意义。然而，随着拍摄不断深入，摄影机开始改变现实，真实与虚构的界限也逐渐变得模糊。

​《大卫的日记》被广泛视为电影史上首部“伪纪录片”（Mockumentary）。影片采用“真实电影”的拍摄方式，在纽约实地取景，以黑白摄影和极简灯光完成制作，却最终将镜头转向电影本身。作为一部“关于电影的电影”，它通过主角拍摄自己生活的过程，反思摄影机如何介入现实，并对非虚构电影声称能够捕捉“真实”的观念提出了深刻的质疑，也由此成为 20 世纪 60 年代美国独立电影的重要代表作。

时长：74分钟 | 语言：英语 | 字幕：中文

​7:30 pm on Wednesday (7/15), we will screen David Holzman’s Diary (1967). The film is one of the most representative works from the early years of the American independent film movement, combining elements of cinéma vérité, direct cinema, experimental film, and meta-cinema.

​The film follows David, an unemployed young man who is inspired by Godard’s famous line: “Photography is truth, and cinema is truth twenty-four times per second” (“La photographie, c'est la vérité, et le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.”). He decides to pick up a portable camera and turn his everyday life into a film. He repeatedly films his girlfriend, his neighbors, and the streets of New York, trying to find meaning in life through the camera. Yet as the filming continues, the camera begins to alter reality, and the boundary between truth and fiction gradually becomes blurred.

​David Holzman’s Diary is widely regarded as the first mockumentary in film history. Shot on location in New York in black and white with minimal lighting, the film adopts the techniques of cinéma vérité, only to ultimately turn the camera back onto cinema itself. As a “film about film,” it reflects on how the camera intervenes in reality through the protagonist’s act of filming his own life, offering a sharp critique of nonfiction cinema’s claim to capture “truth.” It has since become an important work of 1960s American independent cinema.

​Runtime: 74 min | Language: English | Subtitles: Chinese