T,M,RR,W

This is a work of intuition, iteration and collaboration. I have been inspired by screendance, a genre that combines choreography and cinema. The footage was left on my camera from a test shoot for another project, which I wanted to develop into a short film. I showed it to the composer Vogel Ray and asked for a composition that would express “barrier, longing, attempting but unable to touch each other, a universe where things seem to repeat itself from a different angle.” After Ray sent back the revised soundtrack, I used it as the matrix to introduce rhythms into the visual image. I experimented with repetition, speed and color. The narrative of an off-sync mirror and a portal of touch arose throughout the editing process. The final scene concludes this journey of dance and alludes to the joining of two worlds.

Jue Yang (CN)
Jue Yang is a writer, filmmaker and artist based in Rotterdam. Before moving to the Netherlands, Jue studied Geography and Architecture and worked as a technologist in the US. During that period, she attended playwriting, directing and dramaturgy courses across New York City and self-produced plays at local theaters. In Rotterdam, she obtained her Master’s in Lens-based Media at the Piet Zwart Institute where she started making films. Her short films have been exhibited and screened at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, Argos Center for Audiovisual Arts in Brussels and EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Jue is a contributor to Metropolis M, a Dutch art magazine and Talking Shorts, a film review website.