The Chinese Room
Långström Minna
The Chinese Room is a computer-generated 3D animation. The film portrays a futuristic society, as if seen through a surveillance monitor. In the animation, video and computer surveillance have become a natural part of daily life. The computer-generated characters that populate the world of The Chinese Room invoke the animation industry's ideal of simulated actors, an idea provoked by a research agenda where things are done just because they are technically possible. The question of what we can know about each other extends into fodder for reality-tv, resulting to alienation and paranoia.
Production Year
2003
Duration
00:13:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
animation, control, human relations, media, paranoia, political art, reality television, surveillance, three-dimensionality
Original Title
Kiinalainen huone
Finnish Title
Kiinalainen huone
English Title
The Chinese Room
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Minna Långström (Author), Minna Långström (Director), Minna Långström (Animation), Ziva Borlja (Choreographer), Pelle Venetjoki (Sound), Aku Raski (Sound)
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Långström is a media artist and filmmaker. Her artistic work consists of films – short fiction and documentary – as well as cinematic installations, combining moving images with spatial elements. Her work processes tend to be extensive, well researched and interdisciplinary. Her work focuses on social perspectives on technologically mediated narratives and visual technologies, as well as certain political histories and their cinematic influences on the present. The intuitive experience and role of the viewer is a central aspect of her installations.
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