CHENG RAN, "The Last Sentence", 2013, Single channel video with sound, 12 min 44 sec
Tuesday, October 20th through Sunday, October 25th, everyday 1pm-6pm
Tuileries garden, “carré des sangliers”, Concorde entrance.
Admission: at the Cinéphémère or directly at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard:
info@fondation-entreprise-ricard.com / +33 (0)1 53 30 88 00
Cheng Ran participates in FIAC’s artist’s film program Cinéphémère 2015. Curated by Daniel Kurjakovic, the sixth edition of Cinéphémère will be presented by FIAC and the Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard in the Tuileries Garden. More than thirty short films by artists—for instance, Alain Fleischer, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Alex Prager, James Richards, Bojan Šarčević, Colin Snapp, Mario Garcia Torres—are screened every day from Tuesday, October 20th to Sunday, October 25th, in a 14-seat cinema.
“This year’s program […] asks how circulation, circuits, transports, and transfers are presented and activated within contemporary artists’ videos and filmic works. […]People, goods, ideas—wherever you look, circulation seems to rule, and one question, asked by many, is how to deal with its dynamics. The videos and filmic works present us with ways we ourselves might narrate and make visible what otherwise always threatens to escape in abstract self-regulated circuits, the realms where cybernetics and globalism converge. ” Curator Daniel Kurjakovic commented.
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Following short films by Cheng Ran will be screened at listed hours and dates.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21ST
1pm:
The Last Sentence, 2013, 12 min 44
2pm:
The River and The Pond, Before Falling Asleep, Part I, 2013, 5 min 55
Two Pigeons, Before Falling Asleep, Part II, 2013, 4 min 11
The Fire and The Tree, Before Falling Asleep, Part III, 2013, 4 min
The Butterfly and The Flower, Before Falling Asleep, Part IV, 2013, 5 min 55
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22ND
4pm:
The River and The Pond, Before Falling Asleep, Part I, 2013, 5 min 55
Two Pigeons, Before Falling Asleep, Part II, 2013, 4 min 11
The Fire and The Tree, Before Falling Asleep, Part III, 2013, 4 min
The Butterfly and The Flower, Before Falling Asleep, Part IV, 2013, 5 min 55
6pm:
The Last Sentence, 2013, 12 min 44
The single channel video The Last Sentence was produced by Cheng Ran in Iceland. It displays unusual natural sceneries and elements on the road, in combination with conversations and music on the radio. In post-editing, the
artist selected and rearranged dialogues from the classic movie Gone with the Wind (1939) as off-screen narration. Reality and virtual sound intertwine with the images, thus becoming ambiguous.
The River and The Pond, Before Falling Asleep, Part I, 2013, 5 min 55
Two Pigeons, Before Falling Asleep, Part II, 2013, 4 min 11
The Fire and The Tree, Before Falling Asleep, Part III, 2013, 4 min
The Butterfly and The Flower, Before Falling Asleep, Part IV, 2013, 5 min 55
The cycle Before Falling Asleep uses well-known classic fairy tales told at bedtime as inspiration. Shot in Amsterdam on Super 16 mm film, it employs an anthropomorphic perspective to show four conversations between actors from the natural world: the dialogues between a river and a pond, two doves, a fire and a tree, a butterfly and a flower acting as metaphors for several basic philosophical truths, including progress and stagnation, truth or lies, to choose or to miss, and danger and safety.
The title of the cycle alludes to the moment before a child goes to sleep, and when the parents will often tell him a bedtime story. Frequently, the child will fall asleep before the story is finished. In medicine, there’s a kind of disease called hypnagogic hallucination. It’s not a state of dreaming, but rather it lies in a grey zone between waking and dreaming.
