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Conor Clarke
Do Ho Suh chose different pastel shades of fabric to distinguish between the different architectural zones in The Perfect Home II: blue for the domestic spaces, pink for the hallway, and celadon for the upstairs floor and corridor.
Installation view, One: Do Ho Suh, Brooklyn Museum. Photo: Jonathan Dorado
雪王冰淇淋 Snow King Ice Cream
Taipei, 1978
Insect Warfare – Manipulator
Oxhide (牛皮) dir. Liu Jiayin (刘伽茵). 2005.
Liu Jiayin wrote and directed her debut film Oxhide at the age of 23 while working on her Master’s degree in Film at Beijing Film Academy. Capturing the daily life of a working-class family living together in a 50 square meter apartment, Oxhide is notoriously low budget, with Liu’s own parents as lead actors. The film is also known for its cinematographic minimalism – it consists of 23 static shots in a single location, the longest of which lasts half an hour. Shot on the narrow screen of a DV camera, some events occur entirely off screen, with only the actor’s voices to fill the scene.
Oxhide was premiered at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI and Caligari Film Award. Oxhide II, a sequel also directed by Liu, premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
murmur of youth (1997)
dir. lin cheng-sheng