Qiheng Chen
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China
Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Dialect
Orchi(D)ad
蘭父
2023
Orchi(D)ad is a film about 25 minutes long, as the name suggests, about “orchids”, about “father” or “patriarchy”. The film mainly briefs ten stories related to the symbol “orchid”, it emphasizes the connection and entanglement between “orchid” and multiple themes: sex and lust, myth and colonial imagination, collective history and individual memory. The orchid symbolizes the complex desires and entanglements that exist within individuals. The film quietly shuttles between reality and fiction in the form of "storytelling", trying to capture the desires and fetters hidden in the heart of the encounter like a mimicry orchid.
《蘭父》是一部时长约25分钟的散文影像,顾名思义,关于“兰花”,关于“父亲”或“父权” 。 影片主要通过简述十部与符号“兰花”相关的电影作品,重视“兰花”与多个主题间的联系与纠缠:性与情欲,神话与殖民想象,集体历史与个人记忆等。影片以“讲故事”的形式静静地穿梭在真实与虚构间,如同拟态的兰花般尝试捕获相遇者在内心所潜藏的欲望与羁绊。