Video Project 2

WHERE IS JESSICA?

The video project with Sunday Xu started from the workshop from project of Narrative and Sequence. I make up the story in the project of “Words are unreliable”. Both of us like the story very much that we would like to realize it in a narrative video. It talks about a mental patient who has a split personality fell in love with the other person in his body. ‘Jessica’ is the split character that lives in his own body. But he fell in love with Jessica, which means he fell in love with himself. This is a tragedy that the story ends up in the death of Jessica because he wanted to process the entire love from his lover. That is to say, he killed himself. In fact, he loved nobody but himself.

Sunday and I want to separate this story into several short videos presenting the different mental situations of the character. The first video was displayed in the Public Screening in Sigune’s studio in November 2011. We especially chose a bus stop to shoot this short video, as there is a glass mirror that can shows reflections. And this reflection can connect with the screening window of the studio. The second one is made February 2012, talking about the chasing of the Jessica, though it is just an illusion in his mind.

Youtube

Where is Jessica? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhaHvEZG640

Where is Jessica? 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmfG48B8KiI&feature=youtu.be