One Sunday Morning (2021)
13:12 minute animated video written and produced by Yifan Jiang.
One Sunday morning is a fable-esque thought experiment exploring the limits of language and human empathy. The story begins with humanity’s sudden loss of language on one unsuspecting Sunday morning. Set in a parallel universe that is a magical realist rerendering of our contemporary reality, the lives of the two protagonists push these questions to the breaking point. What did we humans gain from language, and at what cost? Don’t look down. We are beings that live on top of dizzying towers of abstraction on top of abstraction on top of abstraction…
Installation view
(Today Museum, Beijing, China)
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