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Gutai

In Gutai, Wenhua Shi returns to the locations of his childhood in Wuhan and, with the encyclopaedic intensity of a collector, catalogues their textural qualities, the way they look at certain times of day, on 16mm film using in-camera edits; named after the Japanese Gutai movement (in Chinese ‘gu tai’ translates to ‘body tool’), Shi’s collected images speak to the bodily and immediate, a way of navigating, knowing and remembering place.

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Release DateMay 3, 2020
StatusReleased
Original TitleGutai
Runtime 6min
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LanguageMandarin
Original LanguageChinese
Production CountriesChina
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