What I saw yesterday, at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, experimental film+contemporary arts fest. Under the theme of "Reconstitution". I saw 3 films, from diff countries.
I am especially interested in a film maker from Taiwan Che-Yu Hsu because of his artistry in the deployment of digital tech and story telling. --"The Making of Crime Scenes" 2022 - Experimental digital color documentary, Taiwan/France. 21:56mn.
Mixing new tech and exposed old tech, the wire flying in sky tech for wuxia film making which he intentionally did not erase the wires - which is never visible in a real wuxia film. Wires are normally hand removed after the film is shot. Here he showed some making of of the wuxia genre.
Che used Le fresnoy studio - and he made a docu film on a Taiwanese ex pro-contracter/murderer who became film producer, mostly of the Wuxia genre. Wuxia, kungfu, martial arts genre. This makes sense because his previous full time occupation - that of a contracter was an expression of the beliefs of "getting justice", doing what the "boss tells you to do", here, the contract came from the government, it was alluded. He talked about it, that he did a v gd job. He talked about it as a job, one of the gigs that he had. So he went to the us, did a clean job which he had thought gd and easy, clean. He thought nothing of FBI, in his mind, a simple logic, he was not conscious of the world of how detectives work in US. And was convicted, but anyway, the film started from the time after he converted into film maker/ producer. Che, Director of the docu film and the principal actor/subjects's point of view are quite interesting. The docu film maker also used digital tech in a v smart way, he goes inside, behind the virtual model of the the head of the principal character near the end, and we see through the holes of his eyes, what did the ex-contracter see, what was his views of the crime. The subject is v delicate, but shown in a v quick and succinct way without too much explanation, but we understand where the contractor came from, his normal way of life, and how he ended up doing the gig of his life, its almost pure monologue /answers to questions that we did not hear. V gd use of digital tech.
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