Chris Zhongtian Yuan
22 mins
In a forest, two exiled individuals are about to reincarnate into the next life while intimately sharing family legends, collective histories, love tales and folklore. Juxtaposing analogue film and digital animation, the film collapses time and space. The work explores queerness, migration, and colonial ghosts haunting relations amongst China, West Africa and the Caribbean in the past and now.
Chris Zhongtian Yuan (1988, China) (they/them) is an artist and filmmaker. Their work re-imagines our relationships to land, body and language across time and space. Through sensorial and investigative ways of making and finding, their films imagine new relations between individual and collective, self and the other, near and far. Exhibitions of Yuan’s work have been held at Whitechapel Gallery in London, Somerset House in London, Aesthetica Film Festival, among others.