Skip to content
From Dark Matters poster

From Dark Matters

Film202118m

Not rated

Where to watch

Details

Director
Shen Ruilan
Language
Chinese
Released
2021-01-20
Runtime
18m

Community score

Not enough votes

Confidence

Rating weighted by how many people voted

Actor Hub

Scene work for this title — private technique journals.

Open journal →

The story

An intimate reading experience of voice messages from my grandmother‘s sleepless moments. A portrait of personal memory as it is reimagined and lingers for an instant. My phone camera documents wandering figures by a lakeside at night. Across from the lake, the sight of the dissolving cityscape appears to be both infinitely close and extremely remote. This film attempts to reconstruct the forgotten and the marginalized parts of individual beings in the scope of time. The film explores what’s beyond the visual expression and flows out of the flat screen to co-inhabit the space of the audience’s reality. The viewers would find themselves roaming through the ontological existence of film, confronted with sound, light, darkness, time and rhythms, transitioning between positive space and negative space, and approaching the very ambiguity of memory.

The room

Ask. Discuss. Find the next one.

Stay with From Dark Matters: ask what it is actually doing, talk it through, then follow the traits that made it land.

Ask

Talk it through

Grounded in the film — and in your map, when you have one.

Try asking

3 free asks left without an account.

Actor journal

Private scene work lives in Actor Hub — not on this title page.