Description: The train moves fast through the tunnel while roaming inside one flower after another. The film combines the footage of the subway tunnels and the still photographs of flowers, allowing them to interact. Watching this film is like embarking on a psychedelic cosmic journey. In fast motion, particles of various colors rush towards the viewer. The screen is like a black hole, as if there is a gravity sucking the audience into the tunnel. The audience seems to experience passing through clusters of colorful nebulae, and also like crossing through a microscopic world. The flowers in the background are from still images made by the director. The sound of Flower Tunnel uses Shepard tone, to make an unworldly effect of perpetual motion.
Wei Gao Gao Wei is an artist and independent filmmaker from China, living and working between Seoul and Paris. She graduated from Beijing Film Academy, China. She previously worked in the media industry in Beijing. Currently, her artwork is focused on still and moving images. Practices involve multiple media such as photography, super 8mm, 16mm film, video and image experiments. She held solo exhibitions in Paris, France and Seoul, South Korea in 2022-2023.
Her films were selected and screened at art festivals and institutions in New York, Hamburg, Seattle and other places: Flower Rain was selected in the 2023 Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands. Bamboo in the Water was selected in the 27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. Czech Republic, and showed in Chengdu Art Museum, China. Flower Tunnel screened in INTERSECCIÓN Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival, A Coruña, Spain, 2023.
