艺术家吸引大众对缅甸童工及年轻女性的关注

Promotional poster of the video animation 'I Wanna Go to School’. Image from the Facebook page of Nyan Kyal Say

动画影片《我想上学》宣传海报。图片来自Nyan Kyal Aay的Facebook粉丝专页。

缅甸艺术家Nyan Kyal Say制作了一些动画影片，内容强调缅甸境内儿童与妇女所面临的困难处境。

其中一部动画的片名为「我想上学」，这部动画陈述着一对兄妹想要上学的梦想，然而这个梦想却受到现实中的诸多因素所阻挠－如性别不平等、贫穷、战争、虐童案件、童工及人口贩卖等。

这部动画在2015年的国际人权电影节中获得最佳动画奖。2016年8月，亚太区域的国际劳工组织亦大力推崇这部动画，并将它视为保护缅甸境内儿童的运动之一。

根据研究，在缅甸每十位儿童就有一位是童工，而在这些童工中，超过半数的儿童从事高危险性的工作，且近半的儿童都没有完成小学的学业。

以下为影片「我想上学」：

另一部由Nyan制作的动画影片，片名为：「我不想要的生活」。这部片描述缅甸大部分的女性在生活上所试图克服的的种种困难，例如性霸凌、性别歧视、走私等。该动画的宣传片如下：

在与作者Nyan进行访谈的同时，缅甸正经历民主转变的过渡时期。Nyan强调了艺术家们在像缅甸这样的国家里扮演了怎么样的角色。

The role of artists is very important for every country, because aside from pointing out the realities, they can also make people feel those realities and make the public understand. For Myanmar, since the eyes of most Myanmar people were closed by the previous military-backed governments for many decades, they became lost and didn’t even know that they were lost. In such case, art is a strong way to make their eyes open. Also, because of that, during those years, many artworks dealing with politics, social issues, economy, and government matters were censored. Now, since Myanmar is in rapid transition and transformation with the new government, and as artists are now given the freedom to create, art becomes more important for the people to see and feel the reality, and motivate them to make changes in society.

艺术家在各个国家中都占有一席之地。因为艺术家不仅可以透过作品点出现实，也能让人民感受到现实的情况，并让大众易于理解。由于缅甸人民受前军政府的统治长达数十年，当地居民因此少了眼界，他们在不自觉的情况下迷失。在这样的情况下，艺术是一个开拓人民的视野的强烈方式。但也因为如此，在那些年间，许多关于政治、社会议题、经济、及政府议题等艺术作品皆受到政府的查禁。现今，缅甸在新政府快速的体制转变下，艺术家也享有创作的自由，艺术对人民而言也变得更加重要，可以让他们真实地看见并感受到现实的情况，并促进人民为社会带来改变。

Nyan认为和他一样的动画家们会持续在缅甸占有一席重要的位置，他对此有信心。

For animation, we have to keep trying far to survive, since the animation market and animation knowledge in Myanmar is still not well-developed yet. However, I can see positive movements in Myanmar like the rising number of young animation artists. I believe we can do it for the development of animation culture in Myanmar.