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重庆的夏天很漫长(预告片)
47' Documentary
2022 with Eunice Gao

脱离了童年和青春期后,我重新回到自己长大的城区,面对童年时候曾经亲密但现在已经陌生的姐姐,发现她们如今都陷入了生活的泥沼与荒谬之中,我观察,质疑她们的生活与选择,带着理解与不解,童年的回忆与未来的延伸交杂。我同时思考自己的未来。

 

我害怕自己也落入同样的泥沼之中,但我不知道自己是否能够摆脱这样千百年来的模版?

蝉鸣阵阵,夏天总是太长,无法给出任何答案。

飞鸟
16'22'' Documentary
2021

我与信仰基督教的外婆并不熟悉。在拍摄这个以乡村纪录片为选题的纪录片时,我才想起她来。那个时候她是一个面孔模糊的老年女性。

 

我与她呆了一整个星期,与她一起日出而作日落而息,一起喂狗喂鸡喂猪,挖竹笋,与她一起上教堂,看着她虔诚地祈祷。

 

我过了很久才意识到,我拍的不是某种猎奇的乡村基督教,而是我的外婆,我母亲的母亲,一个沉默、孤独又充满着爱的人。

What is the period?

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Pain

Photography

2023 ​

To do something.....    2022

Birthday is a ritual in daily life.

 

In 2022 summer, I was waiting for this day, as a once-a-year spotlight in a rental room with less than five square meters in Hong Kong, waiting to get a year older.

 

Age, as a number, is a society's measure of personal worth. Today's China has no room for people over the age of 35 in the labor force, and I had about ten years of shelf life left. It was anxiety-provoking, so I decided to do something.

 

This is not like Hans Ulrich Obrist's do it or Miranda July's Learning to Love you more, where the artist sets the rules and lets others present. I have made a long to-do list and I will do it. The process of completing the list tried to answer the question for me —

 

How should people give themselves meaning?

1.To smoke 24 cigarettes all at once

Photo; Videos 97’33’’ without audio

 

Tobacco always appeared with my father, it was his only friend in his vulnerable moments.

 

When I smoked the last few of 24 cigarettes, my heart beat faster, as if I had been exposed to the sun. I fell asleep almost immediately when I finished.

 

No dreams.

2. To write letters to my mom without lies

letters

 

I didn't send any of them to her.

3. To draw graffitis on the street

Photos

 

I spent most of my time in Hong Kong lying in bed, staring at the incandescent lights on the ceiling until it turned black.

 

4. To burn out pages of the diary

Leftovers

 

My grandma was cremated in the spring. I used a yogurt bowl to burn the diary written in the days of her cremation, hoping that she would not read it.


 

5.To hide cards in the library

A Photo album

 

《Conduct of Users in the Library》

Smoking and games of any form are not permitted in the Library.

 


 

6. To find a job

Two A4 papers

 

China's unemployment rate for 16-24 stopped publishing after reaching a record high. I'm glad I'm about to get rid of the age of 24.

 

7. To talk with a tree

Audio, 24’38’’                              

 


 

8.To find 24 stars

Photo

 

Since I was a child, among the fair-skinned and cute children, I have always stood out because of my freckles. During my long growth, I was among the top three in the competition for the title of "ugly", and freckles were the best stain on my "beautiful career".

 


 

9. To draw tits of porns and compare with mine

5 sketches 20cm X 30cm

 

Breasts are two pieces of extra flesh that have been annoying since my puberty. They are the best physical evidence that I am "inferior” to men.

 

 But I am also the same as a man because I can get an orgasm whenever I see others’ breasts.

 

10. To learn dirty Cantonese vocabularies

Video,1’33’’, no audio

 

It’s shameful to be a Hong Kong resident but can’t speak Cantonese. People always tell me to learn the dirty words first, but I can't dare to speak and I can’t pronounce them correctly.

 

11. To have tattoo for the first time

Photo

 

The fortune teller said that one of my parents would die before me unless I recognized a stranger as my substitute parent. I couldn't accept this, so I got "Maman" on my back.

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Hey heī rabbit

Hey heī rabbit studio 是Scout XU MY 和 Eunice Gao. 她们相信真实纪录的力量,并决定用相机和创作作为一种对人类社会的不公的消极抵抗。

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Scout XU MY

徐铭言生于重庆,是一位生活在中国香港和中国大陆的纪录片导演和 艺 术家。在这个独特的时代里,她专注于现实与真实的档案化。她 艺术实 践中最重要的方面之一是对女性主义以及现实与记忆之间关 系的探索。 她积极参与国际纪录片项目,同时也是香港城市大学 2022年创意媒体艺 术硕士毕业展的策展人,她对实验影像、装置有 强烈的兴趣和好奇心。 她目前正在创作她的第一部中片纪录片《重 庆的夏天很漫⻓》。

EXPERIENCE

Curator:

混沌乐园 - 2022香港城市大学创意媒体系MFA毕业展览

Producer/Field Producer:

Vice Aisa - Gen China Series; Arrow Factory - China Series...

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