Tentacle eyes
Tentacle Eye is a fictional spell-film,In the telling of a story about an underground kingdom, a pair of ambiguously related lovers also seem to be traveling back through a tunnel to their own past - to their memories of land and some dreamlike fantasy and fragments.
The perspective of the film moves between the monologue of ghosts, and different non-human perspectives. Interspersed with the text about a princess who loses her sight in an underground world, this recitation combines the Wu and haunted literature of ChuCi,Liao zhai. Rewriting the land bound thinking and heroic narrative implicit in these stories into an anti-origin, fragmented narrative that interpenetrates and intermingles with the non-human.
This work is about the feeling of hiding, and being suspended, explores the entanglement with non-human beings, the internal experiences of queer bodies, and how hauntology are interrelated with the experience of diaspora.
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Yuqing LinDirector
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Wenxin HuangKey Cast
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Kerrica KendallKey Cast
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Ziyun HuangKey Cast
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Yew BrownMusic and Sound design
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Xinyu XuSpecial Thanks
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Hang LiSpecial Thanks
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Ziyu WangSpecial Thanks
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liming LinSpecial Thanks
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Project Title (Original Language):触手眼
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Sci-fi
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Runtime:8 minutes 54 seconds
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Completion Date:May 24, 2023
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Production Budget:1,000 GBP
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Country of Origin:China
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Country of Filming:China, United Kingdom
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Language:Chinese, English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Lux moving image centreLondon
United Kingdom
December 17, 2023 -
B3 Film FestivalFrankfurt
Germany
October 21, 2023 -
Goldsmith Contemporary Art centerLondon
United Kingdom
May 27, 2023 -
The Wrong biennaleOnline
August 16, 2023 -
Queer East festivalLondon
United Kingdom
April 28, 2024
Yuqing Lin(she/they, b1997) is a filmmaker, artist,researcher . She uses various media for her creations, including film, installation, printing, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Holds an MFA in Sculpture from Royal collage of Art, and a BFA from Chinese Academy of Arts . Simultaneously, she has developed the collective project “if splash as your whistle” which is a community explores queer and diaspora journey through moving images and artist films . Her work has been screened and exhibited at Lux Moving Image Centre ( 2023, London)B3 Biennale Film festival(2023, Frankfurt),Goldsmith CCA(2023,London),Bermondsey Project Space(2023,London),, The Wrong Biennale(2023,online), Latitude Gallery(2021,New York) etc.