雨貝．梭裴（1966-）出生於奧地利，曾旅居英國、義大利、美國、坦尚尼亞、剛果等國，1990年代中期定居巴黎，常獲邀出席全世界的研討會，也在許多大學和國際影展開設大師班授課，並贏得超過50個國際獎項的肯定。
作品包含家庭、殖民、全球化、政治等議題，看似嚴肅但獨具詩意。強調使用小攝影機的他，以獨特的「漫遊」方式不斷移動，深入那些難以進入觸及之處，隨機交談探訪，記錄親身見聞，以近距離的目擊和鳥瞰視角，拼貼出一幅具強烈作者觀點的全景圖。其中，耗費超過20年所完成的「非洲三部曲」，揭露黑暗大陸的不堪，成為深刻探討當代困境的經典之作。
「自從我去非洲旅行多次後，我更加了明白我身為一個歐洲人的事實。透過電影我試著描述的，是這兩塊大陸之間緊密的協同關係、幾千年來的激烈辯證。我想描寫正在相互摩擦碰撞的不同世界。……這種拍攝電影方式的本質不只是檔案紀錄，也探索著你的感知感受所及。通常，這比顯而易見的真相，涵蓋了更多的真實。」—雨貝．梭裴
Director in Focus: Hubert SAUPER
Hubert SAUPER (1966-) was born in Austria. He has lived in Britain, Italy, the U.S., Tanzania and DR Congo and settled in Paris, France in the mid-1990s. SAUPER was often invited to attend forums around the world and to teach master classes at various universities and film festivals. He is also a winner of more than fifty international awards.
His films tackle serious topics such as family, colonisation, globalisation and politics, but are unique in their poetic lyricism. Often using small video cameras, SAUPER wanders back and forth into the lands beyond our reach, conducting spontaneous interviews and documenting what he sees and hears from a close distance and a bird’s-eye view, putting together a panoramic picture with a strong auteur vision. Among his works, the African trilogy, which he spent over twenty years making, reveals the troubles of the ‘Dark Continent’ and has been regarded a masterpiece that delves deep into its contemporary plight.
‘I understand much more about myself being European since I've been travelling a lot in Africa. Both continents have such a tight co-relationship, thousands of years of pathological dialectic, which is basically what I'm trying to describe. I'd like to describe worlds which are on the friction lines where worlds collide. [...] The essence of this kind of filmmaking is not only to document but also to explore what you feel as much as you can. Often, this contains more truth than what is the obvious truth.’ -Hubert SAUPER
Films
