2024美国短片·同性
导演：Benjamin Rosenthal Eric Souther
影片探讨了我们如何理解自己的身体，以及“酷儿化”身体的方式，并探讨了在媒介空间中探索身份的表演性。该作品挑战了常规的人际身体接触的至上性，通过人-物-虚拟的混合互动，提出了关于亲密与交流的另类形式。作品中使用自我监控作为创作和存在的策略，这对于理解当代身体体验至关重要。镜头、摄像机、作为电子镜和监视器的视频、扫描仪、生成式AI和动作捕捉技术共同构建了身份的表演——我们作为“混合体”的身份以及如何利用自我意识与位置。通过创作这部作品，我们意图打破稳定身体的霸权，以寻找更大潜力。通过“打破”软件和硬件的既定规范，揭示创作工具，我们打开了新的规则和叙事的可能性。未来无疑属于酷儿，这将是场盛大的派对。
"Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies" explores the nature of how we understand our bodies, the ways in which we “queer” the body, and performative nature of how we explore our identities in mediated space. The work challenges the supremacy of normative human body-to-body contact, by exploring the role that a hybrid human-object-virtual encounter might pose for alternative forms of intimacy and exchange. The use of self-surveillance as a strategy of making and being is critical to our understanding of contemporary bodily experiences in the piece. The lens, the camera, video as both electronic mirror and surveyor, the scanner, generative A.I., and motion capture technology construct the performance of identity—who we are as hybrids and how we exploit our self-awareness and positions.
Through the act of making this work, we aim to disrupt the hegemony of stable bodies in search of what might be greater potential. “Breaking” the intentions of the software and hardware specifications, and revealing the tools of its making, we blast open possibility for new rules and new narratives. The future is undoubtedly queer, and it’s one hell of a party.
