I'm a Retro lover
Old-school lovers often say: It’s not that I like old things—it’s just that the things I like have grown old. Being “old-fashioned” evokes the charm of a bygone era: a certain simplicity, sincere and warm human connections, and the grace of staying composed amid sweeping change. These are qualities slowly fading in our fast-paced, instant world. But through precious archival footage, we can once again feel the elegance of that old-school spirit—be it colonial-era Taipei, a jazz festival in 1950s America, the streets of Tokyo in late Showa, or a Paris fashion runway in the 1980s. If I must stay at home in isolation, I choose to retreat into this spiritual time capsule of vintage films—as if boarding the carriage from Midnight in Paris, traveling to a world that’s unfamiliar, yet deeply nostalgic.
AuthorRicor自由攝影師，萬鏡寫真館負責人，實踐大學工業產品設計學系畢，現居台北。以時尚攝影為主，作品泛有優雅古典的氛圍。並能結合人物、服裝與環境，加以自成一格的色調營造出時間的凝結感。
5 films
Notebooks on Cities and Clothes (Digitally Remastered)
Jazz on a Summer's Day
A Morning in Taipei (Newly Scored by Lim Giong)
The Man Who Has A Camera (Newly Scored by Lim Giong)
Tokyo-Ga (Digitally Remastered) (Only available in Taiwan)
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Those irreversible slices of life
Recently, in a novel I've come to love, I found myself grasping the weight of life's slices. In the story, there is a wicked sorcerer who freezes people in the instant just before tragedy strikes—suspending everything, sealing it into a crystal ball, and building an entire museum from these frozen moments. And isn't film, in its own way, just as cruel? As viewers, we are little more than instruments for collecting tissue slices—slipping into a character's world for a single fleeting moment, wandering through it in passing, only to return, in the blink of an eye, to the reality that is our own.