Not Too Close, Not Too Detached
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Country/Region:
China Mainland
Release Year: 2005
Release Year: 2005
Publish Date: 04 February 2022 15:00:00 UTC
Casts & Crews:
GAN Xiao'er
Directors
Runtime:
35
minutes
Subtitles:
None
Tags:
Les Mots et les choses, Art history, experimental video
Director‘s Statement:
The film is about the director’s experience on the great works of art history. Some art works are thought by people to be unsuitable for daily use. They are distant for me, they come from art prints.
I try to import these art works into our daily life. The experiment becomes a very mechanistic “Historical Materialism”, it means to eat Van Gogh’s Sunflower seeds.
But the last shot of the film shows the experiment’s failure. The shot(my thought), comes from Michel Foucault’s analysis on the relations between our knowledge system and the real world. In his Les Mots et Les Choses, Foucault analyzed Velazquez’s Las Meninas and asked: “Where is the position of the King?” We changed the famous mirror into a real one, from where you can see our cameraman and our camera.
The camera means another knowledge system, it belongs to “Les Mots”, not “Les Choses”.
I try to import these art works into our daily life. The experiment becomes a very mechanistic “Historical Materialism”, it means to eat Van Gogh’s Sunflower seeds.
But the last shot of the film shows the experiment’s failure. The shot(my thought), comes from Michel Foucault’s analysis on the relations between our knowledge system and the real world. In his Les Mots et Les Choses, Foucault analyzed Velazquez’s Las Meninas and asked: “Where is the position of the King?” We changed the famous mirror into a real one, from where you can see our cameraman and our camera.
The camera means another knowledge system, it belongs to “Les Mots”, not “Les Choses”.
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Casts & Crews
GAN Xiao'er
Director
