Bittersweet Survival
Predicaments are complex equations of structure and choice. To survive in the cracks is to constantly navigate a tug-of-war between dignity, morality, and belief—yet how much room to move exists within the walls of the siege? Even in moments of survival against all odds, the inner storm—relentless and overwhelming—never truly subsides. Survival is never mere luck. And there is no need for apology.
王君琦，南加大影藝學院電影電視批判理論研究博士，現為國立東華大學英美語文學系副教授、台灣國際女性影展主席，曾擔任國家電影及視聽中心執行長、女性影像學會理事長，並多次參與國際影展選片委員及評審。長期關注性別與媒體、影像文化與社會實踐、電影史書寫等議題，主編《百變千幻不思議：台語片的混血與轉化》一書。
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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.