One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Made up of micro- events from "satisfying video" that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through an appropriation way by referring to trance and minimal music. It's about a desire for groundless waves, blended with today's inexorable entropy of our information societies.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean
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“it’s an exploration of a world that can all too often fall into the superficial that recognises its pleasures as well as its pitfalls.”
“it’s an exploration of a world that can all too often fall into the superficial that recognises its pleasures as well as its pitfalls.”
Wang Yuyan
Biography
Wang Yuyan (b. 1989, China) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist living in Paris. She graduated from Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts in 2020 and Beaux-Arts of Paris in 2016. She takes inspiration from the endless media production underpinned by industrial productivity. Her works oscillate between film and installation, often in an immersive perspective with a disintegrating abstraction process.
Filmography
- One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean – 2021 – short film
- All movements should kill the wind – 2019 – short film
