易文的導演作品，《曼波女郎》、《溫柔鄉》、《星星、月亮、太陽》均膾炙人口，但他作為一名作家的身份與成就，卻罕有人論述，隨著去年也斯與黃淑嫻重新刊行他的短篇小說集《真實的謊言》始引起注目。舒琪應香港電台《傑出作家》系列邀約，以易文為對象，回顧他的寫作生涯。舒琪用想像與叩問的形式，一方面從他的小說中抽取幾個片段、場景，追尋他的創作動機和對時代（50年代初期）的回應；另一方面則向他的兒女、合作者、研究他的學者提出詰問，探索他作為一名異鄉客如何在香港重新建構他的藝術家身份。是以影片既是記錄片，也有劇情片片段。《海濱薄夢》則是舒琪在追踪易文身影期間，索性直接改編一部易文的同名小說、卻又大膽延伸演繹的短篇電影，寫的是一名女性被壓抑的潛藏慾念。
Evan Yang is best known as the director of several popular films at
MP & GI, but his identity as a writer had rarely been discussed until
writers Ye Si and Mary Wong republished one of Yang’s short story
anthologies in 2013. Film critic/scholar Shu Kei sheds a light on Yang’s
writing career in Imagining Evan Yang, a part of RTHK’s documentary
series on renowned authors that features enactments of selected
scenes in Yang’s works. Shu also uses interviews with scholars and
Yang’s children and collaborators to explore how Yang was able to
rebuild his identity as an artist after coming to Hong Kong. Screening
with Shu’s short film Thin Dream Bay, based on Yang’s novel of the
same name.
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