wirtten by: Chris Marker 影片本身為法語，下文是對應(yīng)的英語翻譯，來自 https://wiki2.org/en/Les_statues_meurent_aussi，油管所用英字亦為該版本。

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. When he makes the chair rest upon human feet, the black creates a nature in his image. Hence, every object is sacred because every creation is sacred. It recalls the creation of the world and continues it. The broadest activity cooperates with the world as a whole where everything is fine, where man affirms his reign over things by imprinting ［銘刻］ his mark and sometimes his countenance ［面容、表情］ upon them. Animal shapes like the one over this weaving bobbin ［編織線軸］, plant shapes like the ones over these ornamented boxes, all of creation moves in formation under the fingers of the black artist. God showed him the way, he imitates God and this is the way in which he invents man. Guardians of graves, sentinels ［哨兵］ of dead people, watchdogs of the invisible, these ancestors’ statues are not made for the cemetery. We put stones over our dead in order to prevent them from escaping. The black maintains them nearby to honor them and benefit from their pour saints’ statues. Nobody worships these severe dolls. The black statue is not the God, it is the prayer. Prayer for motherhood, for the fertility of women, for the children’s beauty. It can be covered with ornaments which have the value of illuminations. It can also be rough, like this earthen ball protecting the harvest, or, still, connected to the earth, to death, by means of shape and by means of matter. This is the world of rigour ［嚴厲、精確］ , each things has its place within it. These heads don’t have to frightening, they have to be fair. Look carefully at their scars, this magnetic field where every shape from sky and earth comes into being. There’s no need for the object to exist and to serve. This overflow of creation, which deposits ［沉淀］ its signs like shells upon the smooth wall of the statue, is an overflow of imagination, it is freedom, turning of the sun, flower knot, water curve, fork of the trees, one after the other, the techniquestes of both beast and man. House-mask. Face-mask. Pierrot ［啞劇男丑角］ of the rivers. Harlequin ［滑稽角色、丑角］ of