Dance Video 舞蹈影像 | 2025 | 12’38” | In Hakka Chinese with Chinese & English Subtitles 客家語對白，中英文字幕
Synopsis 故事大綱
An old man awakens in a deforested rubber estate and finds himself in the colonial past. A distant old folk song ripples as he falls into the eternal loop of rubber tapping.
一位老人在被砍伐的橡膠園中醒來，卻發現自己身處殖民時代的過去。遠處傳來一首古老的民謠，他隨之陷入永無止境的割膠循環之中。
Director’s Statement 導演闡述
Behind Broga Town, known for Bukit Lalang hikes and the 140-year-old Sak Dato temple, lies a forgotten past. Latex Labyrinth delves into memory, labour, and resilience through Malaysian rubber plantations and the Hakka diaspora.
During the Malayan Emergency, British forces bombed nearby forests, targeting communist guerillas. Amid the rubber estates, workers encountered guerillas, smuggled food in latex barrels, and children learned to use guns. These hidden stories are buried beneath estates now lost to deforestation for developments. In this film, we attempt to capture the memory of the land, its scent and its secrets – through dance.
馬來西亞武來岸在以行山路線和140年歷史釋迦多廟等聞名的背後，隱藏了被遺忘的歷史。《膠林密語》通過探討橡膠種植園的歷史與客家人的離散，深入挖掘記憶、勞動與韌性。
在緊急狀態時期，英軍轟炸叢林，找尋隱藏其中的游擊隊。工人與游擊隊在橡膠園中相遇，食物被藏在乳膠桶中運送，孩子們學習使用槍械⋯⋯如今這些故事都因森林的砍伐和開發而被遺忘。而我們試圖通過舞蹈捕捉這片土地的記憶、氣味與秘密，重現那些被埋藏的歷史。
Director 導演
Teo Wey Yinn 張蔚韻
Wey Yinn Teo is a Kuala Lumpur based filmmaker/artist. Her works often drift away from realms of reality and truth, exploring grief, liminality and the spectrum of the human experience. Yinn’s debut short Enflightenment (2023) world premiered at the RAW Competition in the Short Waves Festival in Poland, and won the Audience Award, and has continued to screen in festivals including Leiden Shorts, EXPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin and more.
張氏是一名電影製作者 / 藝術家，現居吉隆坡。她的作品游離於現實與真實之外，探索悲傷、過渡性空間與人類經驗的多樣性。她的首部短片《Enflightenment》於波蘭 Short Waves 電影節的 RAW 競賽中全球首映，並榮獲觀眾獎，隨後在包括萊頓國際短片節、柏林 EXPOSED 酷兒電影節等多個影展中放映。