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The Solitary Revival
2025
single channel video installation
color, stereo
10 min 11 sec
“Films are always the opposite of reality.” Behind the scenes of a swordsman wandering alone in the Jianghu, there are multitudes of laborers working for it. In the early 1970s, when Hong Kong martial arts films thrived, the shooting of films relied on the collaboration of talents and personnel behind the scenes, as the techniques and body movements were marshaled on the on-screen peerless master. The contrasting aesthetics and fascinations continuously extend when we reexamine and rediscuss the behind-the-scenes and on-screen perspectives. On the other hand, do the mature techniques of film special effects, post-production, and generative images in 2025 allow an individual to copy or imitate the whole industry of martial arts films?
Letting “the Solitary” (Dugu) be not only a fictional character and movement in martial arts but also a creative method and attitude. As such, all the techniques will return to one person, and the film and the reality will re-converge with each other.
Letting “the Solitary” (Dugu) be not only a fictional character and movement in martial arts but also a creative method and attitude. As such, all the techniques will return to one person, and the film and the reality will re-converge with each other.