Words Fly Back to the Black Earth
2024｜16mm to digital ｜19:09min. ｜color&bw/sound
Out of nothing, something; out of silence, sound. A calling inhabits the blank page, unfolding a secret writing of her’s. The written traces seep from the murmuring land, pushing through fragmented voices to become new forms - beings made material. Tremors from the construction of a reservoir in 1958 during China's Great Leap Forward reverberate through time, echoing in the emptiness of the pandemic. The voids between these moments brim with a search for agency: of land transformed, of women's unheard voices, and of memory buried but not forgotten. By breaking down linguistic structure, the film opens up a space for imagining, reading, and performing, giving room for an emergence; the roar lies on the other side of silence.
从无生有，从静生声。一种栖息于空白纸页的召唤，展开她秘而未宣的字迹。这些书写的痕迹从低语的大地中渗出，穿透碎裂的声音，化为具象的存在。1958年中国大跃进时期水库建设的震颤，穿越时间的涟漪，在疫情的沉寂中回响，追问主体性：被改写的土地、被压抑的女性之声、被掩埋却未曾消散的记忆。通过打破语言的结构，影片开启了一片想象、阅读与演绎的空间，为一种涌现留出了余地；沉默的另一侧，暗藏着咆哮。