台湾空拍纪录片《看见台湾》导演齐柏林,本月10日空拍《看见台湾2》时坠机身亡,享年52岁。未能完成这部作品,叫许多观众和民众惋惜悲痛。一个艺术家的独特性和永恒性,来自于他的角度、观点和态度。齐柏林的眼睛和心灵总像个天使、像只飞鸟,虽抽离凡世,但身影却贴近人间。


“如果你没有看过,只是因为你站得不够高。”


“If you couldn't see, it's because you haven't stood high enough."


“有些人看不见,有些人假装看不见。”


“Some people can't see, while some pretend they cannot."


“也许一阵风吹来,人就不见了。”


“A gush a wind may come and take me away.”


“就像当了爸爸后才学做爸爸,我是飞到天际后才认识自己的土地。”


“One only learns to be a father after he has become one. Likewise, I have to take to the sky, before I truly get to know this land I call home."


“繁盛的极致是衰败的开端。”


“From the height of prosperity comes the onset of decline.”


“每遇到一次这种生死交关的事件,我都会告诉自己:别拍了,不要再冒生命危险做这种没有任何报偿的事了!可是,一觉醒来,或过一阵子之后,看到天气又好,能见度又高的日子,我又忍不住想要飞了。血液里那个疯狂的因子又再度被唤起。"


“Whenever I am on the brink of life and death, I'd tell myself it'd be the last time that I risk my life to do something so thankless. But after a night's sleep, or when the weather clears up and the sky becomes clear again, sure enough, I'd find myself flying again. The crazy gene in my blood has been reawaken again.


空拍好像是一条不归路,因为空拍,我把视线伸展到了城市之外,看见了大自然,看见了土地,也看见了破坏。其中当然也是充满了无力感,想为这块土地做点什么,也许就是这个念头一直驱使我往前进。


There is no turning back once you have taken your camera so high up the sky. Aerial photography extends my vision beyond the city. Because I have seen nature and this land, I have also witnessed their destruction. From the sense of helplessness came a wish to do something for this earth. It is this desire that has kept me going forward.