yen wang-yun

Writer, artist, filmmaker. After the training in documentary practice and theory in Lyon, Y.W.Y. is pursuing a PhD study at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. His research focuses on the intersection between aesthetics, material culture, and museum-related moving image projects. In filmmaking, the current cycle of works approaches the phenomena around certain deaths in personal or collective memories. Previous and ongoing projects include documentary film, installation, and expanded cinema performance. He mainly works with 16mm film techniques. He is interested in how things, languages, pictures, and places mediate the experience of the world. Y.W.Y. is a member of Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam, learning the ethos of artist-run film lab. He occasionally organises and coordinates screenings.  獨立影像工作者、藝術家與文字工作者，旅居阿姆斯特丹， 曾於里昂修習紀錄片實踐與理論 ，目前為 阿姆斯特丹文化分析學院博士候選人。研究聚焦動態影像在博物、美術館的技術和思想變遷。近期動態影像作品啟發自個人和集體記憶中圍繞著死亡的現象和想像，其創作過程專注於16毫米膠卷手工藝 ，同時反思 事物、語言、圖像、地方如何中介人們對於世界的經驗。作品包含 紀錄片、裝置和現場電影 。 他也是鹿特...

Blue Sun 2025, 30mins, live cinema performance  Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 Developed through SPECTRAL: Spatial, Performative & Expanded Cinematics – Transnational Research at Artist-run Labs, at Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam In Taiwanese novelist Tong Wei-Ger’s short story, the narrator describes the blue sun amid a series of strange perception. The blue sun hangs high in the mountain where the mining incidents took numerous lives in the mid-1980s. Following the literary metaphor, Blue Sun sets out to document the post-mining and post-disastrous villages in Northern Taipei. With short film and performance, the project attempts to translate the lingering energy in the landscape from literature to other artistic mediums. The image theatre of Blue Sun weaves together improvised film projection, sound, and live charcoal drawing. In its live form, Blue Sun is a variable and accumulative process. Each iteration produces a n...

The Othered Scene Charcoal drawing by Chin Meng-Hsuan Soundtrack "Cibotium Taiwanianum Kuo" by Nick Tsai.  2025, 13mins   The Othered Scene starts with a question of language: to whom belong the words when they pass from one person to another through storytelling? Here the words trace back to the plague on Quemoy islands during the immediate post-war period in Taiwan. Two acts of digging lie at the heart of the tales: digging the grave and for the white clay. To uncover the anecdotes related to disease and death, this experimental documentary interweaves a 16mm film travelogue, meditation on archive through charcoal drawing, electronic sound composition, and voice. In assembling the pieces of memories and historical sources, The Othered Scene is part of a work in progress for setting loose the identity of the islanders from any firm historical narrative. The reminiscence of a plague survivor becomes the meeting ground for the fragments from the past of the island –– a field...

Flame Gazing 2023-2024, 8mins Flame Gazing  re-composes scenes from two funerals held by a big family in Taipei, based on the home videos recorded in 1993 and 2001. The re-editing principle of the film threads together clues to the passage of time: the elder who had attended the funeral of the young lady passed away eight years later. In selecting and transforming a huge amount of video footage into hand-processed 16mm film, I searched for both the affective loads and documentary evidences in these images. With both accidental and non-accidental solarization, the reassemblage of materials becomes a time-traveling experience through local rituals, gestures, faces, and remembrance of family members. Such process of rediscovery offers something to contemplate upon, or to“guan huo” (Taiwanese Mandarin), literally staring at the fire. Coincidentally, fire is a recurring element in these funerals. Drawings by Chin Meng-Hsuan. 觀火 16 毫米轉數位， 數位聲音，8分鐘 《觀火》組構兩場喪事的場景，喪禮由臺北地區的一個大家庭舉行，分別在1993和20...

"What do we mean by experimenting with images? or the culture of artist-run film lab" ( link ) December 2024 CLABO Focus programme booklet Necessary Fiction: Negotiating Realities in Post-national Philippine Documentaries 2022 Taiwan International Documentary Festival Translation: “Charting the Documentary Terrain of Mindanao,” by Gutierrez “Teng” Mangansakan II; “From Revolution to Revolution: The Documentary Movement in the Phillippines,” by Nick Deocampo Voices of Photography – Weekly column May 2021 – October 2022 News on photographic practices in visual culture, experimental film and video “Identification, Trace, Interface” Voices of Photography, Issue 32  War Machine, August 2022 “Complex Images and Data Infrastructure: An Observation of Global Media Art Festivals” Voices of Photography, Issue 31  Technologic, March 2022 –––– 〈我們需要什麼樣的影像實驗？從沖印室文化談起〉 CLABO實驗波專文 ，2024年12月 必須虛構：後國族菲律賓紀錄片的多樣真實 2022年台灣國際紀錄片影展 焦點專題別冊 翻譯文章： 〈勾勒民答那峨的紀錄片地景〉 ，古提雷茲·曼岡薩康二世； 〈從革命到革命:菲律賓的紀錄片運動〉 ，尼克·迪...