Green Grey Black Brown

a film by

South-Korea, China, France | 10' | 11/2024 | experimental documentary

A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.

“An enchanting procession of images... a deceptively simple film offering much to consider and return to in the mind.”
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“An enchanting procession of images... a deceptively simple film offering much to consider and return to in the mind.”
Square Eyes - Screenshot 2025-01-08 at 18.21.08
Square Eyes - OFFICIALSELECTION-AlchemyFilmandMovingImageFestival-2025
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Yuyan Wang

Biography

Yuyan Wang, born in China and currently based in Paris, is a filmmaker and video artist. Her works involve recycled materials from the industrial sphere of image production, tracing their mutation and proliferation within the digital frameworks and representations. Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as Berlinale, IFFR, European Media Art Festival, Indie Lisboa, receiving numerous awards.

Filmography

• Green Grey Black Brown — 2024 — short film
• The Moon Also Rises — 2024 — short film
• Look On the Bright Side — 2023 — short film
• One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean – 2021 – short film
• All movements should kill the wind – 2019 – short film

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Crew

Director: Yuyan Wang
Producer: Yuyan Wang
Sound Design: Raphaël Hénard
Editor: Yuyan Wang

Festivals

30+ selections, 4 awards

Select highlights: 

  • CPH:DOX – the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark (19 – 30 March, 2025)
    New:Vision Competition
  • Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival – Curta Cinema, Brazil(23 – 30 April, 2025)
    International Competition Won: Grand Prize
  • Las Palmas de Gran Canaria IFF, Spain (25 April  – 4 May, 2025)
    Competition
  • Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, United Kingdom (1  – 4 May, 2025)
    Official Selection
  • IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Portugal (1 – 11 May, 2025)
    Silvestre Competition
  • Videoex Festival, Switzerland (16 – 25 May, 2025)
    Competition Won: Best International Film
  • Côté Court Festival, France (4 – 14 June, 2025)
    Essay / Art Video Competition Won: Grand Prix
  • Dokufest – Int’l Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo (1 – 9 August, 2025)
    Short Dox Competition
  • Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania (22 – 26 September, 2025)
    International Short Film Competition
  • 25FPS – International Experimental Film And Video Festival, Croatia (23 – 27 September, 2025)
    International Competition Won: Grand Jury Grand Prix
  • Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Italy (12 – 16 November, 2025)
    Official Selection

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Press materials

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Stills, poster & directors’ photos: Click here

Dialogue lists: no dialogues

Downloadable trailer: Vimeo & Youtube

Jury statements

“Grotesque, tactile and terrifying, this alluring work of cinematic poetry managed to feel both prehistoric and post-human yet is disturbingly recognizable as the present. Conjured through a propulsive montage of goop, slime, crud and rubble, the toxicity of humankind takes physical form, as a haunting soundtrack pulls us through the mud with its own detached slickness.”
25fps – Grand Jury Grand Prix

“An enchanting procession of images, this film takes turns comic and horrifying in its cataloguing of artifice. The scale of human intervention in our landscape is surprising and anticipatory of a post-natural order, in which sites of leisure and toxicity become invisible. A commentary too on environmental collapse’s mediation by the same platforms which drain its resource, this deceptively simple film offers much to consider and return to in mind.”
VIDEOEX Festival – Best Short of International Competition