EARLY SIGNS

EARLY SIGNS

three-channel video installation, photography, sound collage 

2023

Film project “The First and Final Girl” (2023) breeds figments surrounding parthenogenetic motherhood. “Early Signs” is the first chapter: three young women are portrayed as nocturnal pathfinders, unknowingly infested with a peculiar form of new life, hopping swiftly onto living and non-living beings. They attempt to navigate their way through multitudes of breathing objects and bodies in an antique shop, however the ghost bellies under fur coats and swimming suits seem to act on their own.

Niki in Kunst Oase (Hohenzollernstr. 58, Munich) stayed with us through the filming nights then made us Espresso cocktails in the mornings, when a mechanical squirrel watched us sipping from floral tea cups, with gilded rim, scratched. Golden particles jumped from one lip to another, whispers passed around, be aware, new life could be highly contagious.

Performers: Chaeeun Lee, Yuchu Gao

DoP: Lara Fritz

Composer: Giovanni Raabe

Sound Recordist: Daniel Kuhr

Metal Devices: Danni Chen

Charcoal drawing, props and costumes management: Yuchu Gao

Photo documentation: Phuong Thao Nguyen, Chaeeun Lee

Equipment support from NEU WORKSHOP

Special thanks also go to Volker Möllenhoff and Jiangyue Guo