Staring at Something for Too Long Turns It into Something Else | Writer Hsiao I-Hui's Picks
Have you ever had this experience—when you stare at something for too long, it turns into something else? Wait—before you pull back in a hurry, trying to “reset” your perspective, ask yourself: is that really such a bad thing? These five uncanny short films try to reinstall your eyes, leading you to gaze again at renminbi, snails, robots, dreams, and strangers. Look long enough, and maybe you’ll realize: it’s not them that are changing.
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Those irreversible slices of life
Recently, in a novel I've come to love, I found myself grasping the weight of life's slices. In the story, there is a wicked sorcerer who freezes people in the instant just before tragedy strikes—suspending everything, sealing it into a crystal ball, and building an entire museum from these frozen moments. And isn't film, in its own way, just as cruel? As viewers, we are little more than instruments for collecting tissue slices—slipping into a character's world for a single fleeting moment, wandering through it in passing, only to return, in the blink of an eye, to the reality that is our own.