Artist xu bing uses postproduction processing to spruce the footage up, frequently labelling the objects onscreen car, tree, etc. One of chinas greatest contemporary artists, xu bing, has made an extraordinary experimentalnarrative first film. It is dreary, it is boring, and worst of all, it is phony. Sep 19, 2017 one of chinas greatest contemporary artists, xu bing, has made an extraordinary experimentalnarrative first film.
He walks the city streets as we bear witness to the world through his eyes. The labrum, mandible and labium form its mouthparts. The eyes was released in 2017 on friday, april 7, 2017 in limited movie theaters. It turns out dragonflies have soupedup colour vision thats better than anything ever. Struggling artist anna larsens mother has never understood her. With cara greene, jennifer blagen, abby fry, david greene. Ive wanted to make a film from surveillance footage since 20. It is a film accomplished without the work of a single actor or cameraman, made from authentic surveillance footage scripted and edited into fiction. World premiere in locarno film festival international competition a film by xu bing writing by zhai yongming and zhang hanyi edited by matthieu laclau and zhang dragonfly eyes trailer on vimeo join. And it completely wastes the talents of two brilliant oscarwinning actresses, kathy bates and linda hunt.
Each of us is captured on surveillance cameras, on average, 300 times a day. Mar 31, 2015 the film is shot in black and white with some extreme closeups, and weird angles, all shot through distorting lenses, accompanied by bizarre music. Everything you need to know about the eyes movie 2017. Dan schindelseptember 14, 2017 facebook tweet email. Six strangers awaken in an abandoned warehouse, where they are forced to play a cruel game in which only one of them will survive. The abstract network of surveillance cameras across china is given a heart, a gaze and its own language of love the hostile anonymity and indifference of this surveillance society is transformed into the components of a postmodern fable into a love that transcends. Dragonfly eyes is quietly disturbing, filled with unease and malaise but also rich in poetry.
The frye art museum is proud to present the us premiere of dragonfly eyes trailer, a work in progress which will culminate in the first fulllength cinematic feature by renowned chinese artist xu bing. Dragonfly eyes major chinese artist xu bing had 10,000 hours of surveillance videos edited down to 81 minutes and turned them into a melodramatic story meant to be a commentary. Dragonfly eyes see the world in ultramulticolour new. Dragonfly eyes is screening at international film festival rotterdam, that will be on january 24 until february 4 xu bing, a visual artist, started. For further information about locarno film festival 2017 visit. Dragonfly eyes a film by xu bing konfuzius institut. Qing ting zhi yan 2017 1h 21min documentary, mystery 8 october 2017 usa each of us is captured on surveillance cameras, on average, 300 times a day. There were 18 other movies released on the same date, including smurfs. Jacob, a single 30 something man, wakes to another day of serenity and melancholia his agnostic and isolated innocence keeping him safe from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. In 2015, visual artist xu bing started collecting surveillance videos and dash cam footage from the cloud. A work in progress which will culminate in the first fulllength cinematic feature by renowned chinese artist xu bing.
Nick turturro, vincent pastore, ana isabelle, danny flaherty, and. The action in robbie bryans the eyes is not entirely unlike the scene in any theater playing it. The lost village, going in style and the case for christ. Dragonfly eyes major chinese artist xu bing had 10,000 hours of surveillance videos edited down to 81 minutes and turned them into. With nothing but clips of publicly available surveillance and dashcam footage. For many years xu bing has wanted to create a movie exclusively using surveillance cameras. For further information about locarno film festival 2017 visit here. The mindblowing debut feature of renowned chinese artist xu bing is a fictional feature created entirely from surveillancecamera recordings, about a young woman whose life takes a series of.
Apr 21, 2016 directed by maribeth romslo, cara greene. Chinese visual artist xu bings ambitious debut feature follows an ill fated. As he readies himself for a day beyond the comfort of his abode, an anxiety begins to set. Dragonfly eyes see the world in ultramulticolour new scientist. Artist xu bings first feature film dragonfly eyes tells a story of love and obsession through footage culled entirely from videos uploaded to chinese streaming sites. Official trailer of dragonfly eyes at tiff 2017, a feature film consists of more than 500 surveillance videos and online livestreaming images. A collective of collaborative creatives working in film documenting the global human awakening. Dragonfly s eyes dragonfly head is large and concave behind. The plot of the film centers on a female protagonist named dragonfly, who. The head is mostly covered by the pair of large compound eye.
The hong kong international film festival society hkiffs is a charitable, nonprofit and nongover. Dragonfly has small antenna which are hardly be noticed. Apr 24, 2018 dragonfly eyes is a 2017 docudrama about a mans obsession to find a woman he loves that went missing. These allseeing eyes observe a young woman named qing ting her name means dragonfly as she leaves the. As the first feature of xu bing, dragonfly eyes is not only a narrative film but an artistic exploration of the audiovisual language. These allseeing eyes observe qing ting too, a young woman, as she leaves the buddhist temple where she has been training to become a nun. My days of being impressed by loud sudden sounds are over, as is my capacity to appreciate this film. Jan 30, 2018 dragonfly eyes is screening at international film festival rotterdam, that will be on january 24 until february 4 xu bing, a visual artist, started collecting surveillance videos and footage from the cloud. The action in robbie bryans the eyes is not entirely unlike the scene in. Their massive globular eyes should have been a clue.
On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Qing ting zhi yan dragonfly eyes does not have a uk release date yet. These allseeing eyes observe a young woman named qing ting her name means dragonfly as she leaves the buddhist temple where she has been training to be a nun and returns to the secular world, taking a job in a highly mechanized dairy farm. Chinese visual artist xu bings ambitious debut feature follows an illfated. We are a video sharing website, clip, feature film from the source of free online sharing of high quality. This is the first thing he tells us himself in his qing ting zhi yan dragonfly eyes, thus setting the unavoidable distance from the image we get with surveillance cameras through his own presence in the. United states april 7, 2017 limited canada april 7, 2017.
The acting is good and even though its low budget, it doesnt really suffer for it. Fipresci prize, 2017 locarno film festival official selection, 2017 toronto international film festival official selection, 2017 new york film festival. The society is committed to making world cinema accessible and affordable to the public. Amori e solitudini in unalienata e moderna cina documentario, cina, 2017. Ke fan, a technician working on the farm, falls in. Dragonfly comes too close on the heels of the mothman prophecies to be considered novel, and. It organizes the annual flagship the hong kong international film festival hkiff and the hong kong asia film financing forum haf in march and april. Stabilizing small air vehicles is a really big problem in terms of control and the forces at play on the vehicle. The film eschews camera operators and onscreen actors, and instead employs publicly available video surveillance footage of everyday life. A dragonflys capacity for rapid darting and precision hovering is of great interest to designers of microair vehicles, and the research were doing is in part supported by the us air force.
Dragonfly eyes is a feature film almost entirely comprised of surveillance footage taken from chinas extensive network of cctv cameras. Funeral parade of roses matsumoto toshio iffr 2018 105 capturing the fervour of 1960s counterculture in shinjuku, tokyo, japans queer classic is a delightfully chaotic film that follows hostess eddie, the transgender star of bar genet, who radiates confidence and sexuality. Dragonfly eyes 2017, scheda completa del film di xu bing. A love story that emerges across spacetime speaks the same kind of poetry that emerges from the speech patterns of an ai bot. Aug 15, 2017 the mindblowing debut feature of renowned chinese artist xu bing is a fictional feature created entirely from surveillancecamera recordings, about a young woman whose life takes a series of.
Cobbling a movie together from surveillance footage hyperallergic. Dragonfly eyes hong kong international film festival. Official selection, 2017 new york film festival in 2015, visual artist xu bing started collecting surveillance videos and dash cam footage from the cloud. Finally, artist xu bings debut feature, dragonfly eyes 2017, uses images of very real places, and people, but dissolves their specificity by moulding them into a single, chronological narrative. Coming to the website, you will enjoy the high quality hd movie playback at high speed.
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