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Good Friday 受难日 (2025)


16mm to digital - 9min

A dragon dance troupe, an aikido class, an ice skating rink. Three scenarios or scenes through which the sensation of falling, or learning to fall, become metaphysical ruminations on modes of  existence that draw strength from letting go. 
- Morgan Quaintance



Director’s Statement

Unfolding in three vignettes, each offering its own way of seeing movements, all done with in-camera edits on 16mm. The sound for each segment is asynchronous from the image, all in the form of conversations. The first and third segment are phone conversations between friends, and the second is recorded on location of non-verbal conversations between bodies in a martial art space. My artistic assertion in this film is to set up counterpoints between image and sound, between questions and replies, between movement and directions. The film is a note about falling throughout life. Balance is an illusion. Every step a falling.

Screenings

2025 | Prismatic Ground | WAVE 4: PROGRAM 2 | Official Selection
Your Ecstatic Self is a programme of recent artists’ moving image, exploring processes of self-discovery, curated by Abirami Logendran and Morgan Quaintance. 

Special thanks

Feifei Zhang
Kenji Yee
Dominic Bonelli
Marsha Turner
members of Chicago Aikikai
Hoàng Phúc Lion Dance
J.P. Sniadecki + docmedia @ Northwestern University


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