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“ICON” dofu-fiction, 18min | 2023 | peru

Right before Mirko, a jungle guide, is about to leave the Amazon where he grew up, a film crew arrives to make a film in the jungle with his help.

ICON is a cyclical film that meditates on the image-making process and the question of simulacrum against the backdrop of the lush jungle, where human language dissolves into a sonic communion with nature…

made during the 2022 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Film Lab in the Amazon

ICON
video installation
with broken magnifying glass, string, projector 
18’ (2023)

The installation weaves a metaphor of cinema: the magnifying is a lens - playing with it was the first ‘fimmaking’ experience I’ve had as a child. Sunlight passes through the magnifying glass and creates a frame made of mesmerizing light, onto a printed photograph of my actor Mirko. And when the light stays too long, it burns the photograph. What are the stakes of a filmmaker’s camera in a place like the Amazon?

’Intersection: within the spirit of nature and where we find ourselves’
group exhibition in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

artists:
Aliansyah Caniago / Apichatpong Weerasethakul /
Dani Huda / Mei Liu / Nemil Shah / Taha Long /
Zachary Yap / Zeyu Wang

curator:
Dani Huda