Title: Body Land
Vimeo Link: vimeo.com/382556919
Password: LCC2020
H264 Download file link for screening: vimeo.com/383050024
Password: PRTATE2020
Info
Synopsis: It’s an abstract imagination from Otobong Nkanga’s work and performance, exploring the politics of land and its relationship to the body.
Twitter Blurb: An exploration of the relationship between the politics of land and the body
Facebook blurb: With the earth movement, Human develop on the earth and exploit the sources in nature. Human live on land for billions of years. Inspired by Octobong Nkanga’s work and performance, this short film comes to explore the politics of land and its relationship to the body and histories of land acquisition and ownership in an abstract way.
Credits
Director: Jinn Zhang
Animator: Jinn Zhang
Sound: Jinn Zhang
Music: Jinn Zhang
Voice: Otobong Nkanga
Special Thanks to: Kim Noce; Lizzy Hobbs
Biography
Facebook blurb: Jinn Zhang is an animator, an illustrator, and an art promoter, based in London and Shanghai with a design background. She tries to apply different techniques such as Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. She likes to explore the boundary between traditional art/ folk art and contemporary art.
Director statement
Otobong Nkanga’s work reveal the invasiveness of human and the inclusiveness of nature or land. With the earth movement, Human develop on the earth and exploit the sources in nature. Human live on land for billions of years. Inspired by Octobong Nkanga’s work and performance, this short film comes to explore the politics of land and its relationship to the body and histories of land acquisition and ownership in an abstract way.
At first, I was so amazed by the swallowing of the stone in the live performance in TATE, so I chose Otobong’s audio to animate and use this shot as the last one in the film. I use the land and the body to be the main elements to explore my topic, and apply Otobong’s tone, blue and black, as the main tone of my film to indicate the sense of mystery. I make the body transited to the trees, the land, the wave or the creatures, to show the relationship between them.
Contact details
Jinn Zhang
birdjinnbirdjinn@gmail.com
+44 07529819769
+86 15084879644
Social media
Website: vimeo.com/user72419466
Twitter:twitter.com/BirdJinn
Instagram: instagram.com/birdjinn/
Technical info
Length : 1 minute 13 seconds
Size: 1920x1080 HD 16:9
Sound: Stereo
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