月升 Moonrise (2018), Single-Channel Video (b&w, no sound), 4'37"

 

长虫山是昆明北郊的一座石灰岩山峰，城中的大部分区域都能看到这条嶙峋的白色石脊。在一个冬夜，我在长虫山顶的一块石头上以同一个姿势站立了一百分钟。在此过程中，月亮从远方的群山后逐渐升起，最终消失在画面之外。在被加速的时间中，那些平时难以被感知的运动具有了新的形态：月亮的轨迹划过天空，飞机如流星，城市的灯光如烟火般绽放。而那些平时运动之物此刻却凝固：身体在风中保持着静止，沉默如山石。

The Snake Mountain is a limestone peak on the northern outskirts of Kunming, my hometown. The jagged white rocky ridge can be seen from most areas of the city. On a winter night, I stood on a rock on the top of the Snake Mountain for over one hundred minutes, while the moon was gradually rising and finally disappeared outside the frame. In accelerated time, movements that are normally imperceptible take on new forms: the trajectory of the moon crosses the sky, airplanes streak like meteors, and city lights burst like fireworks. And what is normally in motion is now frozen: the body remains still in the wind, silent as a rock.