Field
Release Year: 2022
Publish Date: 02 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC
A chaotic field awakens four kinds of emotions that have this in common: they are full of contradictions; they are ambiguous and indeterminate; they seem real but are fictions. A man attends his classmates’ reunion at a scorchingly hot open-air barbecue stand. He is delighted to meet his first love from 20 years ago, but gives up his desire to have sex with her. A woman, anxious to see her critically ill friend, flags down a passing car, but changes her mind after an entire day of driving through the rain. A woman meets her long-time boyfriend for a tryst in a hotel room. Assailed by a fierce wind, she intends to break up with him, but does not have the strength to do it. A drunken man calls his wife from a dusty, gritty vacant lot on the outskirts of a city. He mentions death in passing, then decides to kill himself. “We have returned there where we had never been.” “We are in the midst of an adventure, and are forever heading towards it.”
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Lü Meijing
Directors
2022 Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival, Greece 2022 Salerno International Film Festival, Italy
Nowadays, we are immersed in thoroughly networked over-consumption, excessively homogeneous social interactions, and a single-minded pursuit of technological capability. This transforms social life into an empty, illusory spectacle.
Nevertheless, the world of postmodern knowledge no longer has a meta-discourse. Data in principle is accessible to anyone, thereby allowing for the possibilities of a new “subjectless community”, whose membership demands no substantial commitments but transcends what we now understand as identity.
In our short film Field, we try using a new kind of inter-related, to fictionalize the existing possibilities. Persons – in their relationships with fire, water, air, earth, birds, dogs, fish, cellphones/electromagnetism, language etc. – Regarding, or gazing becomes a way to open up the solipsist self, thereby awakening emotional experiences in different consciousnesses by means of iterations of communication that form perceptual resonance.
Every person is given to the world. From the chaos where everything infiltrates everything, thereby generating a “autopoietic areality” that exists in a probability cloud of “being-with-one-another”.
“The innermost character of salvation is that we are saved only at the point when we no longer want to be,” as Giorgio Agamben has said, “We can have hope only in what is without remedy. That things are thus and thus-this is still in the world. But that this is irreparable, that this thus is without remedy, that we can contemplate it as such-this is the only passage outside the world.”
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Lü Meijing
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