In his recent “reshooting” series, Taiwanese artist-filmmaker Su Hui-yu takes forgotten or forbidden artifacts from Taiwanese’s cultural collective consciousness and brings them vividly back into the present, restaging and reworking elements of the source materials into elaborate, expressive new scenarios that involve careful, considered choreography of both the camera and performers, bright, bold color and costuming, and no shortage of sexual or violent imagery. The result is something like a speculative remake, not so much a re-imaging but more a reimagining: a new work that bears ghost-traces of the original, related to it but unshackled from its limitations.In the first film in this series, Super Taboo (2015), a suited man sits in a secluded forest and reads a pornographic book from his childhood, letting his imagination run riot as descriptions from the book blend with his own erotic fascinations. Playing out in a single-take, a slo-motion frenzy of entangled bodies and vibrant colors,...
- 3/21/2021
- MUBI
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