Gaoyuan Chen
Catching Sheeps
"Sheep(羊)" in Chinese sounds like "Yang(阳)" and is often used to refer to COVID-19 positive(阳性) patients.
I used this depersonalized nickname as a starting point to capture my observations and feelings during my three months of life in locked-down Shanghai in 2022, using a darkly humorous visual style.
3D film，2m39s，2022.5
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Gaoyuan Chen & Xiaoyu Jia ，3D film，5m44s，2022.1
This is a short digital film about contemporary life and escape. In this world, the circadian sense of time has been blurred or even lost. Digital technology and the internet have created a myriad of landscapes in our world, where the boundaries between the virtual and the real are gradually blurred, and the human body is objectified, randomly placed and distorted. We jump back and forth from grid to grid, torn between work, capital and eternal anxiety.
机密录像，影像 ，静帧，6分，2022.11
"It took us seven days and seven nights to finally fix Agent Murphy's last footage. "
The short film mimics a surreptitious point of view, using gritty video textures and absurd plot setups to respond to my impotence and irony at the cascading absurdities during the 2022 epidemic.
