George Clark
Sea of Clouds
Statement
16mm, colour, sound, 16 min, Taiwan/UK, 2016
Sea of Clouds / 雲海 is structured around an interview with contemporary artist Chen Chieh-Jen (陳界仁). The film explores the relationship of cinema, landscape and rural life and the layered histories of these sites as places of self-organization and resistance.
Built around the question of translation and the relationship of what we hear to what we see, the film follow’s Chen’s retelling of the farmer’s tradition of using film screenings as mean of covert political assembly during the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan. The title 雲海 (ynhai) is term to describe the view from Taiwan’s highest mountains when everything below is hidden from view by a sea of clouds.
The film has been shown at London Film Festival (UK), Image Forum (Japan), Courtisane Festival (Belgium), Asia Arts Station (Thailand), Doc Lisboa (Portugal), Exis (Seoul), Media City Film Festival (Windsor /Detroit) among other festival.
Sea of Clouds / 雲海 is structured around an interview with contemporary artist Chen Chieh-Jen (陳界仁). The film explores the relationship of cinema, landscape and rural life and the layered histories of these sites as places of self-organization and resistance.
Built around the question of translation and the relationship of what we hear to what we see, the film follow’s Chen’s retelling of the farmer’s tradition of using film screenings as mean of covert political assembly during the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan. The title 雲海 (ynhai) is term to describe the view from Taiwan’s highest mountains when everything below is hidden from view by a sea of clouds.
The film has been shown at London Film Festival (UK), Image Forum (Japan), Courtisane Festival (Belgium), Asia Arts Station (Thailand), Doc Lisboa (Portugal), Exis (Seoul), Media City Film Festival (Windsor /Detroit) among other festival.
Statement
16mm, colour, sound, 16 min, Taiwan/UK, 2016
Sea of Clouds / 雲海 is structured around an interview with contemporary artist Chen Chieh-Jen (陳界仁). The film explores the relationship of cinema, landscape and rural life and the layered histories of these sites as places of self-organization and resistance.
Built around the question of translation and the relationship of what we hear to what we see, the film follow’s Chen’s retelling of the farmer’s tradition of using film screenings as mean of covert political assembly during the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan. The title 雲海 (ynhai) is term to describe the view from Taiwan’s highest mountains when everything below is hidden from view by a sea of clouds.
The film has been shown at London Film Festival (UK), Image Forum (Japan), Courtisane Festival (Belgium), Asia Arts Station (Thailand), Doc Lisboa (Portugal), Exis (Seoul), Media City Film Festival (Windsor /Detroit) among other festival.
Sea of Clouds / 雲海 is structured around an interview with contemporary artist Chen Chieh-Jen (陳界仁). The film explores the relationship of cinema, landscape and rural life and the layered histories of these sites as places of self-organization and resistance.
Built around the question of translation and the relationship of what we hear to what we see, the film follow’s Chen’s retelling of the farmer’s tradition of using film screenings as mean of covert political assembly during the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan. The title 雲海 (ynhai) is term to describe the view from Taiwan’s highest mountains when everything below is hidden from view by a sea of clouds.
The film has been shown at London Film Festival (UK), Image Forum (Japan), Courtisane Festival (Belgium), Asia Arts Station (Thailand), Doc Lisboa (Portugal), Exis (Seoul), Media City Film Festival (Windsor /Detroit) among other festival.
