Dis placed
May 2020
Film Project
Directed by Yanzhen Wu & Tzu-yun Liang
Composed by Minghai He
LOGLINE
There. In the city. Where many creatures live in, forming an emerging ecosystem, is not the original habitat they belong to. All the living creatures and plants are found in and between various artificial landscapes: moths in mugs, grass between tiles, and humans themselves. Yet, we are so used to it.
SHORT SYNOPSIS
What is in a city? Buildings, bridges, and train stations - the traffic hub for human. Botanical gardens, zoos, and various "natural" landscapes which have been reproduced and placed in cities. We can find countless species, even ones from distant foreign countries, eventually settling here.
The destinies of various creatures are cleverly overlapped. The creatures are powerless, unable to speak up for themselves, and are only able to live in a way which is chosen for them. When looking at these creatures, human began to reflect on their own situation. So, the boundaries of a city, are they pathways which can be chosen freely or restrictions which living creatures are forced to withstand?
This short film showed the boundaries within a city set by humans as a result of modernisation and communitarianism whilst the domestication of creatures has also become part of the picture.
FILM
STATEMENT
Have you ever felt alienated from one space, from the surroundings and all the creatures besides you? Well, you are not alone. There are many organism lives of displacement around us, from plants to animals, and even human beings themselves.
"Displaced" challenges the border of various species' living spaces in the urban ecology system, for human intervention, these creatures are living in an artificial habitat instead of where they belong. The first place we think of a moth should appear is never a delicate mug.
Belong, or not belong?
That is the question we keep asking ourselves.
