导演：啟恒
编剧：啟恒
主演：无
制片人：无
摄影：啟恒、周楠
类型：纪录短片、实验片
时长：22分30秒
完成时间：2023
对白语言：汉语普通话
地区：中国
制片公司：无

Director: Qi Heng
Screenwriter: Qi Heng
Cast: —
Producer: —
Cinematographer: Qi Heng, Zhou Nan
Genre: Short documentary, Experimental film
Length: 22min30s
Year: 2023
Dialogue: Mandarin Chinese
Region: China
Production Company: —

《蘭父》，顾名思义，关于“兰花”，关于“父亲”或“父权”。影片主要通过简述十部与符号“兰花”相关的电影作品，重视“兰花”与多个主题间的联系与纠缠：性与情欲，神话与殖民想象，集体历史与个人记忆等。影片以“讲故事”的形式静静地穿梭在真实与谎言间，如同拟态的兰花般尝试捕获相遇者在内心所潜藏的欲望与羁绊。

Orchi(D)ad, as the name suggests, is about “orchid”, about “father” or “patriarchy”. The film mainly outlines ten films related to the symbol “orchid”, emphasizing the connection and entanglement between “orchid” and multiple themes: sex and lust, myth and colonial imagination, collective history, and personal memory, etc. The film quietly shuttles between truth and lies in the form of “storytelling”, attempting to capture the hidden desires and constraints of the encounters in their hearts like mimic orchids.

啟恒出生于广东，2018年本科毕业于切尔西艺术学院纯艺术专业，2023年毕业于中央美术学院实验艺术影像艺术研究方向。他的实践涉及影像与书写，主要思考如何成为一名“讲故事者”。近期，他常以特定动植物作为创作与研究发散的起源点，试图再现被主流生态叙述所忽视的多重情感与复杂纠缠。收集与整理故事是新生态叙事不可或缺的工作，而桑迪兰笔下的酷儿生态学是他在重新链接与构建人与非人关系和叙事的有效理论支撑。身份认同为酷儿的他一直在找寻与“不幸”重叠的形式与结构，这致使他不仅关注社会边缘社群与酷儿动植物，还关心遭遇歧视、剥削、暴力、流离失所、忧郁的所有“ta”们。

Qi Heng was born in Guangdong. He graduated in 2018 with a BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, and in 2023 from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a major in the direction of experimental video art research. His practice involves video and writing, and he mainly thinks about how to become a “storyteller”. Recently, he often used specific animals and plants as the source of creation and research, attempting to reproduce the multiple emotions and complex entanglements ignored by mainstream Eco-Narrative. Collecting and organizing stories is an indispensable task for new Eco-Narrative, and Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands’ queer ecologies are his effective theoretical support in reconnecting and constructing relationships and narratives between humans and non-humans. Identified as queer, he has been looking for forms and structures that overlap with “misfortune”, which leads him to focus not only on marginalized communities and queer flora and fauna, but also on all the “ta” who encounter discrimination, exploitation, violence, displacement, and depression.

对于兰科植物的兴趣，起源于我在大卫·林奇的《双峰镇》中接触到的一位男性虚构配角：哈德罗.史密斯（Harold Smith）。我对这名患幽闭恐惧症的“兰花男”有一种难言的共情感，这导致我带着迷惑对兰花进行多方位的文化研究。2020年某一天父亲偶然说起自己养铁皮石斛的经验，让我意识到没有比他更适合反馈我对“兰花”的多年关注，于是早在这一年便有了《蘭父》的主题想法。2023年，当我完成这部自己逃避已久的作品时，我感到如释重负，从某种意义上来说，《蘭父》救赎了自己。

My interest in orchids originated from Harold Smith, a male fictional supporting role in David Keith Lynch’s Twin Peaks. I have an indescribable empathy for this “orchid man” who suffers from claustrophobia, which leads me to conduct multi-dimensional cultural research on orchids with confusion. One day in 2020, my father accidentally mentioned his experience of raising Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo, which made me realize that there was no one more suitable than him to give feedback on my years of attention to “orchids”. Therefore, I had the theme idea of Orchi(D)ad as early as that year. In 2023, when I completed this work that I had been avoiding for a long time, I felt a sense of relief. In a sense, Orchi(D)ad redeemed me.