Water Sports

这位导师始终坚信，孩子是全人类的未来。他谆谆教诲：要用心培育下一代，让他们成为前行的引路人；要让他们看见自己内心蕴藏的无穷美好。杰尔森与伊佩——这对深陷爱河的学生，在气候崩坏的世界里艰难求生。他们要经历心智与体魄的严峻考验。尽管生活残酷无情，他们始终坚信老师的教诲——强大的身心与钢铁意志终将战胜苦难。但两人很快领悟到：面对世界末日，或许最好的生存之道不过是简简单单地去生活、欢笑与爱。

The Teacher has always believed that children are the future of all humanity. He earnestly teaches the students to nurture them well and let them lead the way. He helps them see the boundless beauty they possess inside. Jelson and Ipe—this pair of students deep in love—undergo trials of both mind and body as they struggle to survive in a world devastated by climate change. Though life is harsh and unforgiving, they hold fast to their teacher’s wisdom, in that strength of body and spirit will ultimately triumph over adversity. But Jelson and Ipe soon realize: perhaps the best way to survive the end of the world is simply to live, laugh, and love. 

导演：惠米·阿尔卡萨伦
编剧：惠米·阿尔卡萨伦
主演：伊利亚·坎拉斯、约翰·伦茨·哈维尔、里基·达沃、博恩·安德鲁·伦德哈斯
制片人：阿伦贝格·洪、玛拉·拉韦洛·贝纳尔多
摄影：贝尔希·克鲁茨
类型：剧情短片
时长：20分钟
完成时间：2024年
对白语言：英语、他加禄语、希利盖农语
地区：菲律宾
制作机构： Daluyong Studios

Director: Whammy Alcazaren
Screenwriter: Whammy Alcazaren
Cast: Elijah Canlas, John Renz Javier, Ricky Davao, Bon Andrew Lentejas
Producer: Alemberg Ang, Mara Ravelo Bernaldo
Cinematographer: Berhil Cruz
Genre: Narrative Short Film
Length: 20 min
Year: 2024
Dialogue: English, Tagalog, Hiligaynon
Region: Philippine
Production Company: Daluyong Studios

惠米·阿尔卡萨伦是一位屡获殊荣的导演兼艺术指导。他毕业于菲律宾大学电影学院，曾入选2013年“新加坡13 Little Pictures电影实验室”、2016年“瑞士弗利伯国际艺术节观摩对话驻地计划”以及2024年“柏林电影节天才训练营”。
他的首部短片《雄鹰》于2023年斩获奇幻电影节最佳国际短片奖，并先后在2023年纽约电影节和2024年圣丹斯电影节展映。目前，他正在筹备自己的第四部长片《Noodles, Our Love was Instant and Forever》。
他还是一位爱猫人士。
电影作品年表
Colossal – 2012 – 长片
《岛屿》- 2013 – 长片
《永远不要把我们分开》- 2018 – 长片
《雄鹰》- 2022 – 短片
《水上运动》- 2024 – 短片

WHAMMY ALCAZAREN is a multi-awarded director and production designer. A graduate of the University of the Philippines Film Institute, he was selected for 13 Little Pictures Film Lab 2013 in Singapore, Festival Belluard Bollwerk Watch and Talk Residency 2016 in Switzerland, and Berlinale Talents program 2024.
His first short film, BOLD EAGLE, won the Best International Short at the Fantasia Film Festival 2023. and was screened at the New York Film Festival 2023 and Sundance Film Festival 2024. He is currently developing his fourth feature film, NOODLES, OUR LOVE WAS INSTANT AND FOREVER.
He likes cats.

Filmography
Colossal – 2012 – feature
Islands – 2013 – feature
Fisting: Never Tear Us Apart – 2018 – feature
Bold Eagle – 2022 – short film
Water Sports – 2024 – short film 

作为一个三十来岁的单身同志，我必须努力工作才有底气支付账单和望见未来，我必须要在食品价格上涨和基本生活需求难以满足时努力保持收支平衡。我早就接受了人生很难这件事。这听起来很丧气，但事实就是这样，最近的日子真的很难。

当下现实生活已属不易，但我们如果把自身未来、甚至地球的未来也考虑在内，生命的话题就更沉重了。早在千禧年之初，我们就被反复提醒：地球正在消亡，袖手旁观只会让全人类都在劫难逃。现在我们也确实看见了当时种下的果子：年轻伴侣选择不生儿育女，亿万富翁谋划逃往太空……凡此种种皆构成了我们置身的复杂现实。

于是忍不住问自己：我到底在为什么而活？我还问自己，格蕾塔·通贝里会怎么做？说真的，她是怎么鼓起勇气放弃年少天真的欢乐？是什么驱使一个孩子在乎环境超过在乎她的玩具？爱护环境说起来是简单的道理，但想想我在经过漫长劳累的一天之后，只想睡觉、吃东西和看电影，但她是怎么做到如此无私，把时间都给了环保事业？

《水上运动》正是这些思考的结晶，也是我在注定毁灭的世界里对生命意义的探寻。设想我自己就是格蕾塔·通贝里，一个怀揣着和她相同信念的年轻男同，究竟是什么让我拥有了这些信念？站在我单身的三十来岁，我的答案是：爱。生活很难，地球也快完蛋了，但至少在看着它毁灭的时候，我会想握住一个人的手，我希望对那个人来说，我是特别的。这样的期待，让我觉得生活尚有意义可见。

As a single gay man in his mid-thirties, working hard to pay the bills and build a future, struggling to make ends meet as the price of food rises and the basic needs and necessities seem to get harder to manage, I’ve accepted that life is hard. It seems to be such an offbeat thing to say. But it is pretty much what it is. Life has been really hard these days.

Life is harder nowadays even more so if we put into context the repercussions of the present to not only our futures but also to the future of the planet. It is something that is often reminded to us at this dawning of a new century – the earth is dying and if we don’t do anything about it now, we’re all doomed. And indeed, we see the effects of this on people these days. Younger couples are choosing not to have children, billionaires want to flee to the outer space, and so on and so forth make the very complicated existence we’ve found ourselves in today.

Here then I wonder to myself what is there to live for. And I ask myself, what would Greta Thunberg do? And really, how has she mustered the strength and courage to let go of the predetermined joys of being young and carefree? What would urge a child to care more for the environment than her toys? It is a simple way of seeing it. But, how can she be so selfless while all I want is to sleep, eat and watch a movie after a long and tiring day?

WATER SPORTS is the culmination of this thought and my search for life’s purpose living in a doomed world. If I were Greta Thunberg, a young gay boy with her beliefs and ideologies, what would have turned me this way? As a single gay man in his mid-thirties, my answer is love. Life is hard and the world is ending. At the very least you would want to hold someone’s hand to watch it burn and fade away. I would like to mean something to someone. At least, I can see something to look forward to in that.