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Gone Is the Gold of the Days
那一天已然流逝



Video, 2018




 


Gone Is the Gold of the Days is a film poem. Amber’s mother, a painter, disappeared shortly after giving birth to her. Years later, on a rebuilt earth caught in the repetition of the old one, Amber sets out to find her. What she encounters is a white-haired version of herself.

They share a cigarette. They burn a painting. They walk in parallel across scorched ground—never meeting, never leaving.

Memory here is not an origin to be recovered, but an interference pattern: the mother’s absence returns as dislocated time, and as a self encountered from the outside. The search does not lead Amber back to the past. It folds her into its repetition.

《Gone Is the Gold of the Days》是一首电影诗。Amber的母亲是一名画家，在生下她不久后便消失了。多年以后，在一颗被重新建造、却仍困于旧世界循环之中的地球上，Amber踏上寻找母亲的旅程。她最终遇见的，却是一个白发的自己。

她们共享一支香烟，烧毁一幅画，并肩穿过焦灼的大地——从未真正相遇，也从未真正离开。

在这里，记忆并不是一个等待被找回的起点，而是一种干涉图样：母亲的缺席以错位的时间重新返回，也化作一个从外部认出自身的自我。Amber的寻找并没有把她带回过去，而是让她被折叠进过去不断重复的轨迹之中。