2020 | Experimental Movie | Colour | No Dialogue | HD | 3m9s
#Narrative #Multi-window Film #Projection
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“Clockwork City Fell in A Bloody Ending without Any Suspicion” is an experimental multi-window film which recorded different contents in three worlds - a macro environment of a city; the citizens of the city; the five senses and emotions of the citizens.
Those worlds seem like separate, however they are relating in one destiny of shared future. In that city, is there still any hope……
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Basic Setting
1. Physical Setting (Diagram A)
Clockwork City has a physical setting – the girl from the middle is like a clockwork scroll wheel to pull forward the content of the right world, then the content is passed through the scroll wheel and processed, finally the content is pushed forward and displayed on the left world.
2. Layering Setting (Diagram B)
Three worlds have their own angle. The right world displays a macro environment of a city; the middle world displays the citizens of the city; the left world displays the five senses and emotion of the citizens. As a flow from right to left, that is a process which explains the city how to affect on the citizens.
3. Trajectory (Diagram C)
At the peak of three act structure, three worlds would become one world. As a community of shared future, one of the world ended up, the other two worlds would be ended up simultaneously.
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Details
The Right World
This is a macro environment of Hong Kong. If you are not a Hong Kong citizen or a person with the basic cognition of Hong Kong, you still can comprehend the content is talking about a busy modern city.
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The Middle World
This one girl is representing the citizens who live in the city. She keeps rotating her body to run the other two worlds. (The physical setting)
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The Left World
This world displays the emotion and the five senses of the citizens. The ear, eye and nose are mainly receiving messages, they would explore the city first. After the conflict, the mouth and the hand began to express the feeling and demands of the citizens.
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Unpredictable Result
As an unpredictable result, if you concentrate on the middle screen, you will see the middle screen has a redder background colour than the left and right screens at the ending scene, although those three screens have an exactly same white background colour. Because of the visual fatigue, this illusion appears. I think this “illusion spotlight” seems like telling people that you should focus the rotating girl (citizen) until the end.
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