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WEIGHTLESSNSS

A Film Directed and Written by Yuqi Wang

Weightlessness Trailer
播放影片

Weightlessness Trailer, 2023

4K Video | 1920*1080

Stereo (R L) | double track | 48 kHz

The film is set in a future era of space exploration, where a young astronaut is dispatched to execute a mission to an extraterrestrial planet. The gravity of the planet she landed on is extremely weak, and various mysterious phenomena occur incessantly, such as space-time distortion, visual illusions, etc. Her earthly experiences completely fail her here. Amidst her curiosity and unease, she feels as if she has become an experimental subject for some octopus-like creature. She tries to escape or awaken, but an old man always seems to shadow her.

 

As psychologist Jacques Lacan once pointed out, the construction of the so-called subject is a product of constant alienation. Is this extraterrestrial planet really a monstrous world beyond the 'big other'? How will it reshape the protagonist's subject? Can humanity still escape unscathed from the nightmare of the monster?

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