Bodyless

International immersive Works Competition

Bodyless


Swiss Premiere
Huang Hsin-chien / Taiwan / 2019 / 30 min / Animation
No dialogue

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The digital soul of a Taiwanese political prisoner is wandering. A jail, an apartment, a city. Virtual memories fade. After his noteworthy collaboration with Laurie Anderson, digital artist Huang Hsin-chien returns with a dreamlike, visionary work.

Bodyless is the latest VR work by Taiwanese artist and producer Huang Hsin-Chien who collaborated with multidisciplinary American artist Laurie Anderson on three virtual reality installations (Aloft, Chalkroom and To the Moon) that featured at the last Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Bodyless is based on the producer’s childhood memories during the period of martial law in Taiwan in the 1970s and evokes the barbaric measures taken by the Taiwanese military regime, colonial culture and the current digital era. The resulting visual experience is dreamlike and surrealistic.


Creation
Huang Hsin-chien
Direction
Huang Hsin-chien
Key collaborators
Lim Giong (Music)
Scenario
Huang Hsin-chien
3D design
Huang Hsin-chien, Warren Wu
Contact
Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association of Taiwan, Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association of Taiwan
Interactive design
Huang Hsin-Chien, Chiu Wei-chieh
Music
Lim Giong
Production design
Tong Peng-wen
Production
Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association of Taiwan (Saiau Yue-tsau)
With
Wu Peng-ying
International sales
Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association of Taiwan (Tsau Saiau-yue)

Huang Hsin-chien / Taiwan, 1966
Filmography
2018    To the Moon
2017    La Camera Insabbiata (Chalkroom)