Note: completed in collaboration with Li Jiahao.
The work is finally presented in the form of experimental video.
It mainly reflects the personal status during the epidemic. People are closed at home and their souls are gradually dying. Therefore, we used paper bundles from Chinese funeral ceremonies to replace all the items in the house. The inspiration for the work also comes from the work "Still Life" by Jon Rafman, a contemporary new media artist we like very much.
During the epidemic, we started to be mentally deranged, everything was in a state of confusion, as if we were in a dream. Therefore, the experimental images started with the characters getting up, after a series of sometimes crazy and sometimes rational activities, lying back on the bed, and ending with the characters getting up. The state has entered an infinite loop. Reality and dreams are mixed together, no one can distinguish them.
Some small treatments were also made in the details, and some surrealist techniques were used. The beer spilled on a certain table is presented with paper-cutting. The water seems to be hanging on the table, and time is stagnant. Here is inspired by Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory.
We tried to make it into a documentary form. The shooting technique learned from the handheld photography of Chinese director Lou Ye. The picture follows the characters, and the characters make different actions with varying degrees of amplitude.
