World’s Odds and World’s Ends
An experimental ethnography of tourists. Documenting the touristic activities in the medieval town Cesky Krumlov of the Czech Republic. I use the time-lapse and slow shutter to capture the repetition of the paths, the action, and the faces of tourists I encounter within a glance. The alchemical process is the metaphor of psychodynamic, and their doomed quest of the freedom in the odds and ends, at the end of the world.
一部關於觀光的實驗民族誌,記錄穿梭在以中世紀聞名的捷克小鎮Cesky Krumlov中的觀光客活動,用逐隔停時的方式拍攝觀光客重複而制約話的路徑與行動,並以虛構的煉金術作為隱喻,試圖呈現當代觀光活動的內在動力,關於寰宇蒐奇與尋找世界盡頭的慾望。
about the artist /
Tzu-An Wu works between experimental film and its expansions. He makes collages with analogue films, through mixing heterogeneous images, audio, and texts in an attempt to inquire about the constructs of (cinematic) narratives and the selves.
He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York, and a BA in Gender and Cultural Studies from NTHU, Taiwan. His works have been shown internationally, including BFI Flare (London), IFFR (Netherland), CROSSROADS (San Francisco), Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan), TIDF(Taiwan). Exhibitions include Taipei Art Awards, Taiwan Biennial, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and Taipei Artist Village, etc. He also does programming of experimental cinema.
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