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Yang Fudong 楊福東
After All I Didn't Force You 我並非強迫你
1998
The two-part black-and-white video After All I Didn’t Force You begins with a frenetic montage of birds, rapidly intercut with a conversation between a man and a woman in a domestic setting. The couple’s dialogue is drowned out by a soundtrack of birdsong intermingled with screeching electronic feedback and static. A single line of text reading ‘I didn’t force you’ appears on-screen, as the fast editing causes the faces of each person to appear to merge.
In the second half of the video, Yang Fudong employs a free-form experimental documentary aesthetic that owes much to French New Wave cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. The handheld camera observes the couple from afar, as they stroll the busy urban streets. There is a soothing Bossa Nova soundtrack. With its existential exploration of disjointed interpersonal relationships and urban life, Yang Fudong’s debut video introduces some of his most salient and enduring artistic themes.
In the second half of the video, Yang Fudong employs a free-form experimental documentary aesthetic that owes much to French New Wave cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. The handheld camera observes the couple from afar, as they stroll the busy urban streets. There is a soothing Bossa Nova soundtrack. With its existential exploration of disjointed interpersonal relationships and urban life, Yang Fudong’s debut video introduces some of his most salient and enduring artistic themes.
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