"[...]"Our first line of approach was to make something absurd." The pair have managed this quite admirably with this bizarre tale of a woman seeking solace in her tank of floating, coloured balls. Several techniques are skillfully used in the film: from the way the main caracter is "projected" onto the interior of her flat as she moves around it, to the animated cogs and wheels that punctuate her trip to the park to change her blue ball into a red one. She needs the red ball to match up with the other ones within the mysterious metal object she keeps in her flat. Of course."
2007 - live video and sound performance running time: ~15 minutes
Originally 18 minutes, this live performance was presented twice to the public during the eArts international electronic art festival of Shanghai in October 2007 at the SHOAC. I expressed my fantasist view of the universe, with a twist of science fiction mainly inspired by Aronosfky's The Fountain. Based around the idea that all the elements of the universe contain in itself the whole universe, like an infinite loop, the sphere would embody the shape of it all, from the atoms and the cells to the planets. Whether the creation is the result of a natural process or an artificial experiment, it gives birth to landscapes and living forms that follow the rules of this endless loop. In this perspective, the word "create" wouldn’t mean anything, since nothing is created, everything already exists.
ASIAN FACE
2007 - C27filmstudio running time: ~52 minutes Chinese/Korean/English w/ chinese and english subtitles
Asian Face is a 52 minutes documentary directed by Tony Chen and rewrited/edited by myself. 3 asian guys (a Chinese, a Korean, and a Japanese) working in Shanghai as photographer or director explain their point of view about several subjects, family, money, love, their aims and their dreams. Indeed this movie talks about the identity of the asian people, it's mainly Tony Chen's personal quest that is expressed through all those images, the quest of a 30 years old man looking for the meaning of his life spoiled by western culture and money hunger. (15 min. extract - introducing Korean and Chinese guys)
MIND THE GAP
2006 - ArtisanHK prod running time: ~12 minutes french w/ english subtitles
HongKong, 2005. A personal vision of the modern society through the most international city in Asia. The rise of the modern empire, the loss of identity coming with.
RELATIVE MECHANICS
2005/2006 - Guingart virus
24h live performance in the streets, with interactive videos and sounds, using sensors and MaxMSP. The passers-by make the visual and sound landscapes change, hudge screens invade the streets, strange machines make unfamiliar sounds.
MUSIC WORKS I also (used to) make music; you can listen to my crappy masterpieces here:
la truffe elle dit : J'ARRIVE !!! ahahaha yeah toma, ça va être d'enfer les retrouvailles avec marineeeuuu :-) je débarque demain... see ya' ma truffe xxx
Hi Toma ... thanks for being a friend of the world and my friend in cyberspace … living in China most of my friends are from here but look around and you will find music, culture and friends from all over the world … come back often to the Swallow’s Nest in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China, Clay, Pam & Xiaoqing
tomaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! bien vu ton itw cnn.. dingue comment les gens perçoivent la chine d'ici ^^ ah l'ignorance fera tjrs des victimes t'sais.. bon sinon, comment ça boom à SH?! ça me manque trop mtnt. j'ai un peu de temps libre soon, donc à voir.. ça te dit PK en plein JOs lol. Viens d'aller voir les nouvelles photos d'IGO! gloupsss JJ s'est fait une coupe à la tektonik et JJ a encore forcé sur le gloss ahahah... t'embrasse ma truffe et à très vite chez les gniaks ;-)
Yo Tom. J'ai vraiment rien pité a ton message. En tout cas c cool parce que je voulais prendre de tes nouvelles mais comme je fais de la merde en ce moment et ben je le faisais pas. Alors comment va la vie à la chinoise!!! Moi, ben comme je te disais je fais un peu de la merde mais j'ai taffé a mort sur mon appart et j'en vois enfin le bout. Je t'envoie bientôt des photos. A+
Et voui, mon vieux :)) ça fait de drôles d'impression. 10 ans quand même. C'est la trentaine, qui arrive héhé. J'aime bien ce que tu as réalisé. J'ai pas eu le temps de tout explorer. le lien musique"The Messer", m'a planté hier… Et ensuite j'ai envoyé du IGO dans le studio, je crois que l'accueil a été positif voyage à la TRON au cœur de l'éléctronique. Mais TOMA , director / editor ça correspond à quoi plus précisément, je pensais que tu faisais de la réalisation quoi…
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