Ruins of Heart
Artist：Chia-Ying, Chen & Tien-Yu, Miao
Can affection and memories be kept? A heart made to be a specimen is permanent or merely a meaningless shell? Being caught in complex emotion, the leading role explores fragmental memories, finding out the solutions to flee the ruins to a brand new story.
Synopsis:
On an empty stage, the leading protagonist wakes up alone to find an old movie projector lying beside him. The machine projected many pictures of a beautiful girl. However, all that he could do is touch her shadow on the wall. He was so angry that he pushed over the projector, and fell down heavily….
After falling in a bathroom scene of an old film, he saw the girl sleeping soundly in a bathtub. Moreover, he discovered his half heart that’s been lost for quite a while is in one jar of those specimens. At the moment he goes to touch his lost heart, the girl wakes up. With shock and fury, she turned into a huge but elegant statue that was hence crumbling and bursting into thousands of pieces…
Motive:
Melancholy is one of characteristics of love. Love can’t be regained once it’s been lost. Nevertheless, it would be permanently poetized in human memories. Our memories are occupied with both beautified love and the cruel realities. This film featured the loneliness and the loss of love. The main scene was located in the leading role’s mind, narrating a fantastic love story.
