A man encounters, encountered, or will encounter a woman in an elevator of an office building. They are destined to meet each other again, yet both are thrown into the maze constructed by time and space through images and sounds that might be different from one’s daily experience in reality. Possibilities have been created, yet further and further away from reality.
September 24th, 2016, North Avenue Beach, Chicago. It was a sunny day. According to the weather report, the temperature was 75°F, with the barometer reading of 30 inches height and the wind speed of 13 miles per hour. The time was 2:27 pm, I was standing by the Michigan Lake. In my hand there was a waterproof camera that weighs 2.6 ounces. I pressed the record button on the cam...
Like many, throughout 2020 Chinese-born, US-based filmmaker Zhengfan Yang (Where Are You Going, IFFR 2016) looked closer at his immediate surroundings. From his apartment complex in Chicago, the filmmaker records ostensibly quotidian scenes: people walking, window cleaners, street sweepers; life viewed from inside a bubble.
This seemingly safe bubble is soon overlayed by audio ...
