Teetering Graphite
LIU Hsing-Hsin, Cherlyn
USA〡2022〡Exp〡B&W〡13 min〡English
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Broken landscapes like screen paintings from a long river. "Teetering Graphite" shudders in the crevices between document, surrealism, and ethereality, sketching a life-world that is disintegrating.
By overlapping positive and negative images, the film attempts to create a middle ground between the real and the unreal. If there is a gap in the connection between a person's memory and real life, the stray fragments of life may find a glimmer of hope in that middle ground. Filmed along the Santa Clarita riverbed, disconnected language and dissonant landscapes gradually highlight a person's presence and disappearance. We watch images fade and memories degrade. The river of the universe comes from the vast void and returns to the vast void.
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LIU Hsing-Hsin, Cherlyn
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu is an artist, filmmaker and writer whose work is grounded in literature and the conceptual avant-garde. Cherlyn’s creative activity often starts from a life event or curiosity concerning an anomaly in language or in the aging material world. Her working method at various times involves handcrafted material, mixed media, and experimental interchange between new and old technologies.
11.10 ㊐ 10:00〡台南新光影城 4 廳
11.13 ㊂ 10:00〡台南新光影城 4 廳〡★ Q&A session with the Director
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11.15 ㊄ 21:25〡台南新光影城 4 廳〡實驗馬拉松B
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The film was filmed along the banks of the Santa Clara River, from its source in Acton westward through Santa Clarita, Piru, Fillmore and Santa Paula, and then finally to the Pacific Ocean in Ventura. Initially, I wanted to record the process of my mother-in-law's amnesia, but due to the sudden epidemic, everyone was quarantined. When I saw my mother-in-law again, she remembered almost nothing, due to the progress of Alzheimer's. This form of screen-painting is suitable for describing what I saw and felt at that time. The fragments of the film are the memories, the time and space of life, the scenery cut under the lens, and the emotional relationships between people that are sometimes broken and sometimes continued.
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