黑色星球獎的啟示  
Lessons of Darkness
2016
單頻錄像
single-channel video
 9’16”
林泰州
Tay-Jou LIN

台灣 / 1968年生於台灣台南,現於台灣生活及工作   Taiwan / 1968 born in Tainan, Taiwan, now living and working in Taiwan
林泰州影像創作類型多元,包括劇情片、紀錄片、實驗電影、錄影藝術、動畫與廣告,近年積極投入環保運動,並以紀錄影像作為反石化污染抗爭的媒體武器。〈黑色星球獎的啟示〉以跨國「石化王國」的台塑集團為主角,控訴台塑在美國(德州、路易斯安那州、伊利諾州、德拉瓦州)、柬埔寨、台灣等地均造成嚴重污染。2009年11 月環保人士與德國倫理暨經濟基金會(ethecon)在德國柏林頒發國際黑色星球獎(Awarding ceremony of ethecon "Black Planet Award")給該集團,並表示:「台塑集團依然保持『毒害地球的領導地位』」。全片以空拍角度俯視台灣台塑工業廠區景觀,配上德國倫理暨經濟基金會代表對台塑得獎原因的致詞/控訴聲音,作品以音/畫分離技巧展開對比撞擊,突顯此跨國集團作為全球石化業龍頭與資本家掌控全球環境的縮影。
Tay-Jou LIN creates in a variety of image genres, including drama, documentary, experimental film, video art, animation, and advertisement. In recent years, the artist is actively engaging in the environmental movement, and document images as the PR weapon against the pollution of fossil fuels. Lessons of Darkness focuses on the multinational “Kingdom of Petrolchemistry,” FORMOSA PLASTICS GROUP, accusing it of bringing severe pollution to the United States (Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, & Delaware), Cambodia, and Taiwan. In November, 2009, a group of environmentalists and Ethecon Foundation in Berlin, Germany gave Black Planet Award to the Group, and commented “FORMOSA PLASTICS GROUP continues to enjoy the title of ‘the leader of poisoning the planet.’” The video was shot from the angle of bird view to look down to the plants of FORMOSA PLASTICS GROUP, Taiwan, and dubbed with the commentary/accusation from the representative of Ethecon Foundation of Germany. It separates the sound and picture to create the impact of contrast, and present such multinational corporation as the epitome of global fossil fuel industry and capitalists seizing the environment of the planet.