Saros
2020 - 2023
The film explores the periodicity and uncertainty, development and stagnation, inherent in modern technological society, using almost stationary moving images. It depicting a series of complex structures, from digital models to electronic systems: networks, databases, QR codes, planetary matter, cosmic cycles, and artificial environments. It recreates the eclipse of the summer solstice in 2020 and speculates on the deadly relationship between solar activity and electronic systems, which caused the collapse of the telegram system in the pre-internet era and remains unpredictable.
With computer-generated monologues of an AI narrator, the first shot — a set of tables and chairs under changing daylight — evolves into a holistic narrative through associations, much like a “seed” in a generative process. The scenes were filmed in the neighborhoods along the Capital Belt of Beijing, where the artist lived during the COVID lockdown, incorporating performances by friends, neighbors, and workers.
