大会展播影片之《Dark Tourism 黑暗之旅》

片名：黑暗之旅
影片原产国：加拿大
语言：英语
字幕：英语
片长：46分钟
影片制作年份：2008年
作者：曼弗雷德•贝克
导演：曼弗雷德•贝克
制片商：巴纳-阿尔普制作公司

内容简介：萨拉热窝围困之后，你去过萨拉热窝旅行吗？种族灭绝屠杀后，你去过卢旺达旅行吗？你去过斯大林主义的主题公园吗？去过种族灭族屠杀博物馆吗？欢迎你成为一个黑暗之旅的游客！亲历人们遭受折磨、或者悲惨地死去、或者重大历史时间发生的地方：柬埔寨的屠杀场地、前苏联的集中营、朝鲜的非军事区都成为了旅游热点，每年有超过百万游客参观纳粹德国的奥斯维辛灭绝营。
《黑暗之旅》这部纪录片题材非常新颖，将会带你游历全球三大洲上的十几个黑暗旅游景点，对于时下风靡追求另类旅游的观众很有吸引力。

导演简历：在德国学习电影后，曼弗雷德•贝克于1985来到加拿大，与奥斯卡获奖导演彼得.华特金斯合作编辑《旅程》，开始了他在加拿大的事业。从1996年开始，他作为制片、联合作者、剪辑，制作了几部故事片长度的纪录片，获得双子座奖、吉尼奖、查莫奖、艾美奖等荣誉。从2001年开始，曼弗雷德开始导演电视纪录片，作品包括《祖国》，被誉为加拿大最优秀的电视纪录片。

Name of Film：Dark Tourism
Country of Production：Canada
Commentary Language：english
Subtitle：English
Running Time：46 minutes
Year of Production：2008
Author：Manfred Becker
Director(s)：Manfred Becker
Producer(s)：Barna-Alper Productions

Brief Synopsis：
Have you traveled to Sarajevo since the siege, Rwanda after the genocide, a family theme park dedicated to Stalinism, or even a Genocide museum? That makes you a dark tourist! Visiting sites where people have suffered or died in tragic or spectacular circumstances is becoming increasingly popular. The killing fields of Cambodia, the gulags of the former Soviet Union and the demilitarized zone in Korea have all become tourist hotspots, while more than half a million people visit the extermination camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau each year.
Death has been almost completely hidden from everyday pubic life in our society. Dark tourist might want to explore their own mortality and in a socially acceptable context, in a way where an inquiry into death is not likely to lead to a response of dread or terror.
People are fascinated by death. Is dark tourism ‘a healthy way’ to search for it, while as an extreme expression, snuff movies aren’t? How many people have watched the beheadings of hostages in Iraq on the internet? A shrinking world and technology have allowed the voyeur in us to visit death, on the www, or during our precious two weeks of holidays.
 ‘Dark Tourim’ is a verite documentary that will take you to a dozen dark tourism sites on three continents. The journey will turn the viewer into a dark tourist himself, observing what travelers see in places of recent human suffering and death, and listen to the voices of former victims that became tour guides. Manfred Becker's film is an exploration into the darkness of our soul.

Filmography：
After studying film in Germany, Manfred Becker began his Canadian career in 1985 when he edited The Journey with Academy Award winning director Peter Watkins. Since 1996, he has earned credits as producer and co-writer, and edited feature length documentaries that received Gemini, Genie and Chalmers awards and an International Emmy. Since 2001, Manfred has directed documentaries for television, including ‘fatherland’, which was honoured as Canada’s best television documentary.