yen wang-yun

Writer, artist/filmmaker. Based in Taipei & Amsterdam. Yen Wang-Yun works with documentary, analogue film technique, and expanded cinema. He is interested in  how languages and pictures mediate the experience of the world, from the personal level to the collective.  He is  a member of  artist-run film lab  Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam, and PhD researcher at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.   獨立影像工作者、藝術家與文字工作者，旅居阿姆斯特丹。   閻望雲的創作涵括紀錄片、膠卷手工藝以及擴延電影。他尤其關注 語言、圖像如何 在個體和集體層次上 中介人們對於世界的經驗。   他是鹿特丹藝術家自營沖印室 Filmwerkplaats 成員， 也是 阿姆斯特丹文化分析學院博士研究員。 CONTACT yenwangyun@protonmail.com w.y.yen@uva.nl PEOPLE Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Filmwerkplaats

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 2023-2025, 10mins Flame Gazing  re-composes scenes from two funerals held by a big family in Taipei, based on the home videos recorded in 1992 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. 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. Drawings by Chin Meng-Hsuan. 觀火 16 毫米轉數位， 數位聲音，10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1992和2001年留下許多家庭錄影帶。再剪輯的原則在於編織時間流逝的線索：家裡的大家長出席第一場喪事，八年之後，她成為儀式的主角。選取、轉化大量錄影素材的同時，我在影像中來回找尋情感的重量以及具體的記錄。素材的重新組合化為時間旅行的經驗，穿梭...

"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...