Redwood - Edison Moth

 

Redwood is an attempt in capturing the liminal quality of 5am, when the sun hints at its arrival and most people are still asleep. It’s the time of day when nothing is required of you. It liberates you from obligations. The quiet hour amplifies the minutiae of our surroundings. What is normally neglected comes into focus - the morning dew resting on car hoods, ants walking along a crack on the floor, a moth struggling to find its way out between a window and a screen.

The DP Roger and I played with a variety of closeups for this project. We experimented with framing things out of context, to allow straight lines to intersect with the curves of a separate object, to have them form their own shape. A clean slate to see what’s in front of us not for its purpose, but for its presence.

Redwood was longlisted for 1.4 On The Cusp Award and featured on Booooooom.com.

《Redwood》試圖捕捉的是清晨五點，一種跨越邊界的特質。那時才漸漸要迎來太陽的光，大多數的人也仍在熟睡。這是一天之中，不需要做任何事情的時光，是我們從瑣碎的義務中脫離，並得到自由的一個縫隙。寂靜的時刻凸顯了環境中的細微事物。平時被忽略的東西變得清晰，如停留在車蓋上的晨露，沿著地板裂縫行走的螞蟻，以及想要從窗戶與窗戶之間逃脫的飛蛾。

我與攝影師李儒杰在拍攝過程中探索了各式不同的特寫鏡頭。我們跳脫了物件本身的意義的的框架，讓他們變成純淨的形狀，讓這個物體的直線與另個物體的曲線相交，進而形塑出它們自己的形狀。一個純粹的視角讓我們看眼前的事物，不是因為它的用途，而是因為它的存在。

Redwood 被提名於 1.4 新星導演獎，並在知名藝術平台 Booooooom.com 上播出。




Credits
Cast: Young Park
Director: Anna Kuo
DP: Roger JC Lee
Producer: Evan Yee
Gaffer: Cassi Mulcahy
Key Grip: Sam Kim
Set Dresser: Hannah Carpenter
VFX: Cooper Vacheron
Color: Roger JC Lee