One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean

Berlinale Shorts 2021

Short excerpts from “oddly satisfying” internet videos are the source material for this piece of video art in which images are stripped of their context, and sounds are broken down into tiny loops in order to transform information into energy. Drawing you in like an elastic sculpture, this video floods you with impressions that simultaneously slip through your fingers. If you don’t want to drown, be an ocean.

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by Wang Yuyan (Director) France 2020 English 11' Colour Documentary form

Part of the Berlinale Summer Special

Crew

Director	Wang Yuyan
Editing	Wang Yuyan
Sound Design	Raphaël Hénard
Colourist	Juliette Barrat
Producer	Eric Prigent

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Produced by

Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains

Photos

Berlinale Meets | Interview

Yuyan Wang

Born in China in 1989, the filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing. Her work, which focuses on the continual mutations within the industrial production chain of images, has been presented at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals and has won numerous awards. One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean screened in Berlinale Shorts in 2021.

Filmography (short films)

2019 All Movements Should Kill the Wind · The Devil in the Details 2020 One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean 2023 Look on the Bright Side 2024 The Moon Also Rises

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2024