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Li Ming 李明
Inspired by Transliteration—Chapter Three: Wavelength 煙士披里純，第三章，波長
2018
Inspired by Transliteration—Chapter Three: Wavelength employs experimental film techniques to raise questions about the nature of movement and perception in urban space. The work pays tribute to the Canadian Structuralist filmmaker Michael Snow’s 1967 avant-garde work Wavelength, a film featuring a forty-five-minute fixed zoom and a sine wave soundtrack. Li’s film was shot mostly in his home city of Hangzhou. It parallels real and fictional worlds to create fantastical and bizarre scenarios, including a scene of Li striding along the Qiantang River’s enormous flood barriers with a horse, as well as news footage of the devastating floods that occurred in Hunan province in 2017. The video is accompanied by a soundtrack of police sirens, drones, and phone recordings. Li’s enigmatic images narrate speculative futures and direct our attention to the machinery of capitalism and the politics of space.
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