Embers from Yesterday, Aflame.

William Wei Hong-Xiao

Experimental film / Experimental film | United Kingdom | digital | 2.35 | b&w/color | stereo | 2022 | 10'
50 €

Collection: Festival CJC Screening Copy: digital

A transcendental meditation on withered trees struggling to be reborn. A fleeting glimpse into the seemingly trivial occurrences of daily life. A sheer ecstasy of physical intimacy viewed through celluloid films, in which the life of the emulsion is decaying. Returning images that have shapes to the shapeless, in the physical fragility of the cinematic medium, invites the viewer’s hallucinatory perception of matter in a state of continual creation and dissolution. Through the evocation of the tension between transience and continuity, the film unfolds the dialectic of destruction and metamorphosis.

Credits

Director: William Wei Hong-Xiao Cinematographer: William Wei Hong-Xiao Editor: William Wei Hong-Xiao Set Designer: William Wei Hong-Xiao Original Music: William Wei Hong-Xiao Sound: Marianna Brown, Alexey Yakovlev, Sylvine

Cast

Performer Artist: Sylvine, Alexey Yakovlev, Marianna Brown

Collectif Jeune Cinéma

The Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Young Cinema Collective) is a filmmakers’ cooperative founded in Paris on June 12th 1971.

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