Green Grey Black Brown
A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime – an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum, in both its refined and unrefined form, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.
- South Korea, China, France
- 2024, 11 min
- Director: Yuyan Wang
- Editor: Yuyan Wang
- Screenplay: Yuyan Wang
- Sound: Raphaël Hénard
- Producer: Yuyan Wang
Yuyan Wang
Yuyan Wang, born in China and currently based in Paris, is a filmmaker and video artist. Her works involve recycled materials from the industrial sphere of image production, tracing their mutation and proliferation within digital frameworks and representations. Her works have been showcased at the Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various other festivals, including IFFR, European Media Art Festival, and Indie Lisboa, where they have received numerous awards.