North American Premiere
Virtual currency and digital junk, along with virtual acts of production and consumption, interact with systems in our lived reality, highlighting their coexistence in geopolitical conflicts.
Media Partner
China/France
2022
In English and Cantonese with English subtitles
Featured in:
MODES 1
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Credits
Screenwriter
Guangli Liu
ANIM
Guangli Liu, Huimin Wu
Editor
Guangli Liu, Huimin Wu
Original Music
Haiying Gao, Bai Li
Director
Guangli Liu
Guangli Liu (刘广隶) was born in 1990 in Lengshuijiang, China. He currently lives and works in Paris. He graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in 2020. Liu’s works often grow out of different approaches to depicting history and events, and eventually find their own places in installations, videos, documentaries, and paintings that suggest that our understanding of the present is often shaped by pre-existing languages, social norms, and media formats. In 2021, he won the Golden Nica in Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation category, and the Golden Key for Best Short Film at Kassel Dokfest.