Non-fiction Script
/short essay film/
Non-fiction Script is a short film which is telling the story of my decision to regain a somehow childlike vision in my practice. The decision was inspired by the line ‘Seeing reality and still being able to dream’ in Agnes Denes’s manifesto (1970) as well as a poem by Fernando Pessoa.
In the film, my journey which I transferred into the script is narrated by my mother who always tells me that I can always be a kid when I am with her. In parallel to acting as the narrator, my mother performs one of my ‘childlike’ ideas involving progressing towards each other from our current, geographically distant locations: Jiangmen in China and London in the United Kingdom.
Consequently, the film unfolds as an open-ended walk shown in a series of intercuts of the clips from our two separate outings, merged with previously recorded footage invoking critical moments of reflection on my practice.
The Film
The Film Stills
The Script
This is the scan of the script that my mother printed out for recording the voiceover. Later I asked her to scan it and send it to me. It might be the third edition that I had sent over to her at that time, thus it included some notes she made and the parts that I highlighted for adjustments. She never engaged in filmmaking or doing narration before, but yet she tried her very best to make this distant collaborative work happen. Here is a message to her: Thank you for everything and love you.
RCA Degree Show 2022
