Slow Motion is a new film work by Hao Jingban. Before this work was filmed last year, a tragic fire had raged in a Beijing apartment building of migrant workers killing 19 people on November 18. What followed was just as sudden, a mass-eviction of residents and workers situated in countless ‘unsafe’ buildings across the capital. Images of the newly homeless soon spread across social media just as swiftly as the action to simultaneously displace a mass group of people in one winter. While the questioning of causes relay online, the simple gesture of an artist to look and go to where these events are becomes just as urgent. The film is structured as a montage of found footages of slow shots of violent impacts on objects and humanoid dummies, soundtrack of buoyant jazz improvisation, slow shots of evicted dwellers gathering their belongings, and the artist’s narrative voiceover. The resultant mélange of sensation is a clamorous cacophony of choreographed chaos, in a way letting viewers experience the slow violence embodied in the moving images. Using footage filmed as the initial events began to unfold, Slow Motion is a personal response that explores methods of perceiving this event and the complicated issues of doing so.