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朝圣路十年
筹备中的影片项目
四个大学同班同学心血来潮的决定，成就了这一次川西藏区之行——十年后再次拍摄的想法也顺势诞生。
二零一五年在盆地游玩五天之后，我们从成都一路延国道318向西行进，经过地震后重建的古老村庄，到人头涌涌的世界遗产旅游景点；沿途长江流过的山谷，转弯时瞥见的皑皑雪山，笔直的柏油路上缓行绕过的牛群，不断地充实着我们对于那段路途的记忆。短短九天的路途上，我们住过马圈中央的简陋平房，和高原上的马儿一同观赏早晨的第一缕朝阳；我们路过世代沿袭的放牧人和朝圣的藏民，看着朝圣者的脸庞在越野车扬起的尘土中覆满泥渍，重复跪拜却不曾减缓的节奏；我们拖着已经高原反应的身躯坐到山顶俯瞰天葬台，看着广阔的日晕下，漫天秃鹫盘旋；在下山等待途中遇见东北来的汉人尼姑，四人对她迁至色达的修行感悟心折首肯，转眼却已想不起她坚持要重复教我们念过的那几句咒语经文……
二零二五年是四人约好再践此行的时间，正是上次旅行的整整十年之后。彼时定有许多无法言说的变化。但和当初一样的心境还在，我们旨在把藏区的特殊性与时间的改变融入进这个跨越十年的承诺。
Photo by Jamie Liu
Photo by Elena Tang
Photo by Elena Tang
Ten Years to Pilgrimage
An on-going film project
The idea started on my graduation trip, as the four college graduated have since agreed upon another trip of the same route 10 years later.
Started from Chengdu en route highway 318, we travelled through once earthquake-shattered villages, remarkable World Heritage Site of irrigation engineering, highland mountains covered with snow and trees, valleys that river Yangtze run through.
We spent nights in blocks of rooms in horse ranches where we accidentally captured the first glimpse of the morning sun. We met shepherds who herded and lived generations along the way, pilgrims whose faces were covered with mud and dust but also with clear expression of persistence. We sat on top of a mountain despite increasing altitude stress, watched vultures hovering under immense aureole and waited till the end of a celestial funeral. We encountered nuns who stopped to share her story and reflexions of life moving to Sertar with wishes that inspired we laities, though Mantras she taught us immediately escaped our minds……
We hope the uniqueness of Tibetan region life could be passed on with our fragmented fumbled expressions.