The hong kong international film festival society hkiffs is a charitable, nonprofit and nongover. Dragonfly is another attempt at creating a new sixth sense, and it falls far short. Artist xu bing uses postproduction processing to spruce the footage up, frequently labelling the objects. Dragonfly eyes hong kong international film festival. Dragonfly eyes disappoints with its unsatisfying combination of an. A study of 12 dragonfly species has found that each one has no fewer than 11, and some a whopping 30, different visual. Chinese artist xu bing created dragonfly eyes, a film made entirely. For many years xu bing has wanted to create a movie exclusively using surveillance cameras. Dragonfly eyes directed by xu bing excerpt 1 en on vimeo. Watch online and download dragonfly eyes with english sub in high quality. This by turns shocking and poetic, but always fascinating, experiment reflects on our obsessive visual culture.
Released february 22nd, 2002, dragonfly stars kevin costner, joe morton, ron rifkin, linda hunt the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 43 min, and received a score of 25 out of 100 on. Dragonfly eyes naturally curious with mary holland. A work in progress which will culminate in the first fulllength cinematic feature by renowned chinese artist xu bing. Dragonfly eyes is conceptual art come to film, forcing the viewer into its train of thought, pushing a perpetually reflective mosaic mirror of self.
In china, a country with strict film censorship, an estimated 200 million such cameras have been installed to capture life unfiltered. Each of us is captured on surveillance cameras, on average, 300 times a day. Actual live streams and webcam and cctv footage are stitched together to support a rather eccentric narrative in dragonfly eyes qing ting zhi yan, the directorial debut from chinese artist xu. A doctor herself, emily darrow susanna thompson was on a medical mercy mission when she died in a bus accident on a. Thousands of hours of actual surveillance footage are edited into a sensational mystery about a woman in a convent who finds work and fame after she leaves the temple.
The labrum, mandible and labium form its mouthparts. Aerial videophotography dragonfly films utilizes the most sophisticated and uptodate aerial camera platforms. Dragonfly eyes major chinese artist xu bing had 10,000 hours of surveillance videos edited down to 81 minutes and turned them into a melodramatic story meant to be a commentary. Dragonfly films taking your film production to the highest level. The image above shows a dragonfly surrounded by a panoramic ultraviolet and green light display designed to stimulate the large interneurons in the retina of the insects middle eye. It organizes the annual flagship the hong kong international film festival hkiff and the hong kong asia film financing forum haf in march and april. Dragonfly subscribed to a channel 1 year ago kizzume channel. This is the first thing he tells us himself in his qing ting zhi yan dragonfly eyes, thus setting the unavoidable distance from the image we get with surveillance cameras through his own presence in the.
As the first feature of xu bing, dragonfly eyes is not only a narrative film but an artistic exploration of the audiovisual language. Dragonflies and bees have the largest compound eyes of any insect, each containing up to 30,000 facets, or ommatidia house flies have 6,000. Celebrated chinese artist xu bing turns his mind to cinema in dragonfly eyes, loading his 79minute film with thoughts, sounds and. The story line was incredibly predictable though it was touted as being ohso suspenseful, the writing stunk, the acting was mediocre, and to top it all off, theres the ridiculously unbiblical concept of the afterlife that permeates the whole thing. Soon, some of the children start to have remarkably similar near. With beau bridges, susan sarandon, james noble, harriet rogers. Dragonfly eyes see the world in ultramulticolour new scientist. An adaptation of a 2005 novel by darryl ponicsan, a sequel to his own 1970 the last detail the inspiration for hal ashbys 1973 new hollywood cornerstone, linklaters film catches up with the three former vietnam vet buddies whose names have been changed from the original, unexpectedly reunited when doc steve carell enlists their aid in the grim task of helping to. It is dreary, it is boring, and worst of all, it is phony. Fionnuala halligan, screen daily screen daily fionnuala halligan. Chinese artist xu bings directorial debut could be described as the truman show, but in real life.
The plot of the film centers on a female protagonist named dragonfly, who. The dragonfly brings dreams to reality and is a messenger of wisdom and enlightenment from other realms. Dragonfly is a 2002 supernatural fantasy film directed by tom shadyac and starring kevin costner. With nothing but clips of publicly available surveillance and dashcam footage. Let take a closer look to the dragonfly s thorax and head, it has a pair of large compound eyes which covered most of its head. The dragonfly mouthparts are very good at biting, adapted for predation.
Find dragonfly eyes stock images in hd and millions of other royaltyfree stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the shutterstock collection. Few images come closer to reality than those recorded by surveillance cameras. Its shot in black and white and that adds to the overall moodiness of it, and that was what initially drew me in. We take to the skies and capture the beauty of a whole new perspective. Dec 14, 2011 the first dragonfly was a deltaspotted spiketail. The head is mostly covered by the pair of large compound eye. Mar 19, 2002 dragonfly soundtrack from 2002, composed by john debney. Celebrated chinese artist xu bing turns his mind to cinema in dragonfly eyes, loading his 79minute film with thoughts, sounds and images gleaned entirely from.
Thousands of new, highquality pictures added every day. Aug 15, 2017 the mindblowing debut feature of renowned chinese artist xu bing is a fictional feature created entirely from surveillancecamera recordings, about a young. For further information about locarno film festival 2017 visit here. Andrew tieman is very talented and his effort was not wasted on this film. The first feature film by the celebrated chinese artist xu bing, constructed entirely from footage of surveillance cameras and livestreaming sites in china into a. Joe darrow kevin costner is a respected expert in trauma and triage. Each facet points in a slightly different direction and creates its own image, and the dragonflys brain compiles these thousands of images into one picture. But his professional knowledge provides little comfort when tragedy claims the life of his wife. Video, surveillance camera footage taken from public livestreaming websites.
Differences dragonfly eyes can only focus on distant objects, whereas human eyes can only focus on close objects dragonflies has the ability to see ultraviolet light, that humans cant humans can. Ive wanted to make a film from surveillance footage since 20, but i. Dragonfly eyes trailer constructs a narrative from seemingly unrelated fragments of reality to reveal what cannot be seen by the naked eye. These allseeing eyes observe a young woman named qing ting her name means dragonfly as she leaves the buddhist temple where she has been training to be a nun and returns to the secular world, taking a job in a highly mechanized dairy farm. World premiere in locarno film festival international competition a film by xu bing writing by zhai yongming and zhang hanyi edited by matthieu laclau and zhang dragonfly eyes trailer on vimeo join. He weaves a story of a boy and a girl in modernday china out of security camera footage. Relaxing harp music peaceful birds sounds, stress relief music forest light duration. It is a film accomplished without the work of a single actor or cameraman, made from authentic surveillance footage scripted and edited into fiction. It moved a bit too quickly for me at first, but then it settled into the plot which i wont give away and i. Various formats from 240p 360p 480p hd 720p to fhd 1080p streaming dragonfly eyes in english subtitle. The story was original and the movie was well acted.
A dragonflys capacity for rapid darting and precision hovering is of great interest to designers of microair vehicles, and the research were doing is in part supported by the us air force. Human eye vs dragonfly eye by samiha shibly on prezi. One of chinas greatest contemporary artists, xu bing, has made an extraordinary experimentalnarrative first film. Stabilizing small air vehicles is a really big problem in terms of control and the forces at play on the vehicle. And it completely wastes the talents of two brilliant oscarwinning actresses, kathy bates and linda hunt. Visual artist xu bings first feature film stitches. This film is made entirely with surveillance footage. Human eyes have three opsinsproteins that sense lightgiving us a color range of red, green, and blue one for each opsin. Sep 19, 2017 one of chinas greatest contemporary artists, xu bing, has made an extraordinary experimentalnarrative first film. For 50 years, film at lincoln center has been dedicated to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema and enriching film culture. In 1977 he entered the printmaking department of the central academy of fine arts cafa, beijing, where he completed his bachelors degree in 1981.
Finding the eerie in the mundane and the uncanny in anonymity, acclaimed visual artist xu bing composites a portrait of real and virtual worlds that is nothing short of breathtaking. Above all, the film reminds us that even in our most intimate moments we are being watched. The mindblowing debut feature of renowned chinese artist xu bing is a fictional feature created entirely from surveillancecamera recordings, about a young. A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family. Dragonfly has small antenna which are hardly be noticed. Rent dragonfly 2002 starring kevin costner and susanna thompson on dvd and bluray.
The society is committed to making world cinema accessible and affordable to the public. Qing ting zhi yan dragonfly eyes does not have a uk release date yet. As head of emergency services for chicago memorial hospital, dr. Later that day i was on a walk looking at the tornado blow down trail after 20 years and a walk participant found a southern pygmy clubtail on one of the walk participants. The photography was good and it certainly had its artistic moments. Dragonfly eyes is quietly disturbing, filled with unease and malaise but also rich in poetry. Dragonfly soundtrack from 2002, composed by john debney.
Dragonflys eyes dragonfly head is large and concave behind. I found this guy on a mushroom walk when we crossed a power line clearing that had a slow stream running through it. Released by varese sarabande in 2002 302 066 338 2 containing music from dragonfly 2002. Dragonfly eyes iffr international film festival rotterdam.
Dragonfly eyes see the world in ultramulticolour new. The scientists who created this picture found the cells were sensitive to change in the ultraviolet light, which might be one way that dragonflies use light. Aug 15, 2017 actual live streams and webcam and cctv footage are stitched together to support a rather eccentric narrative in dragonfly eyes qing ting zhi yan, the directorial debut from chinese artist xu. Actually, the theme of surveillance cameras has a very long and rich cinematic history. A doctor herself, emily darrow susanna thompson was on a medical mercy mission when she. Im sure that in the future that we will see more of his work. Dragonfly 2002 c sdg dragonfly is a ghost story of sorts, but it isnt a horror film though it occasionally thinks it is. Dragonfly eyes can have four or five opsins, allowing them to perceive the normal color spectrum, along with uv light and the plane of light polarization the effect you get with polarized sunglasses. The story is about a grieving doctor being contacted by his late wife through his patients neardeath experience.
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