FAR AWAY EYES + A MOMENT TWICE LIVED
FAR AWAY EYES
DIRECTOR: Wang Chun-Hong
79 MINS, Taiwan, 2022, SUBTITLED
Winner FIDMarseille FidLab Micro Climate Award 2022; Official selection, Visions du Réel 2022
A MOMENT TWICE LIVED
DIRECTOR: MARTIN HEALY
12 MINS, IRELAND, 2016
The screening will be introduced by director Martin Healy.
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In Far Away Eyes, writer-director Wang Chun-Hong, a photographer born in Taiwan, plays the young male protagonist in his debut feature set in Taipei at a crucial period of history – the Taiwan presidential election in January 2020. Wang Chun-Hong was inspired to imagine his film – about a young man trapped by the unknown – on seeing a photograph of a group of people watching two planes in the sky. In a few months he will turn thirty and while he reflects on his emotional state, his past, present and possible future, he encounters by chance an ex-girlfriend. Wang Chun-Hong merges documentary and auto-fiction to forge his own cinematic visual style, a blended language of image overlays, mirror-images, panning and long takes. All captured in stunning black and white, time appears to slow down and scenes become near static photographs.
NOTES BY MARIE-PIERRE RICHARD
Martin Healy’ short film, A Moment Twice Lived explores our perception of the passage of time through the subjective experience of memory, ageing and dreaming. The work makes reference to JW Dunne’s theoretical book ‘An experiment with time’ (1927), which described a series of precognitive dreams, in which he experienced multiple dimensions of time. In the film, Dunne's theories are reflected in the formal structure of the narrative and an analogy is created between the artifice of filmmaking and the experience of time repeated. The circuitous narrative focuses on a fleeting moment when a lone character studies the surface of a painting and begins to sense she has seen the image before. As the character becomes absorbed in the painting’s composition, she begins to experience dual realities and the composition becomes visualised as a parallel film shoot in which she performs the lead role. The narrative moves between the two inter-connected scenes and the distinction between past, present and future becomes increasingly blurred, creating an impression of time.
Martin Healy lives and works in Dublin. He works predominantly through the mediums of photography, film and sculpture and his works have been shown widely both nationally and internationally. International residencies include CCA, Andratx, Mallorca, 2022; Cove Park, Scotland, 2014; Temple Bar Gallery & Studios / HIAP-International Residency Exchange, Helsinki, 2010; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2008; Artists’ Residency Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2007; the International Studio Programme Residency at PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, 2000/01. His film A Moment Twice Lived was funded by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion Visual Arts Project Award.
