Look on the Bright Side
TITLE
Look on the Bright Side
DIRECTOR
Yuyan Wang
COUNTRY
France, Italy
YEAR
2023
DURATION
17′
GENRE
Video Art & Experimental
Look on the Bright Side
In an age of wire and string, futuristic visions anchor in lithic time. In the dark, people are driven to shine in the most spectacular ways. Light, emitted from our digital extensions, has roots traversing millions, even billions of years.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Yuyan Wang
Yuyan Wang (b. 1989, China) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on the impact of image creation in media, representation, and the attention economy. By deconstructing and recontextu - alizing inherent meanings of found materials, her practice probes the continual mutations within the industrial production chain of images, a perpetual development leading to an abstraction of reality. Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as Berlinale, IFFR, European Media Art Festival, Indie Lisboa, receiving numerous awards.
- DirectorYuyan Wang
- ScreenplayYuyan Wang
- Cinematography
- Cast
- EditingYuyan Wang
- Producer/s Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff
- Production Company
- Distributor/s Square Eyes
- Project TitleLook on the Bright Side
- Project TypeVideo Art & Experimental
- Completion Date 1 January 2023
- Country of originFrance, Italy
- Country of filmingFrance, Italy
- LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Yuyan Wang
Yuyan Wang (b. 1989, China) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on the impact of image creation in media, representation, and the attention economy. By deconstructing and recontextu - alizing inherent meanings of found materials, her practice probes the continual mutations within the industrial production chain of images, a perpetual development leading to an abstraction of reality. Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as Berlinale, IFFR, European Media Art Festival, Indie Lisboa, receiving numerous awards.
