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ARTIST STATEMENT
The Year Has Flown By is an experimental short film that explores that off-kilter feeling of moving to a foreign place and having to call it home. I find this feeling interesting because, despite the fact that it’s deeply uncomfortable, I get an insistent itch for it once in a while. Alongside this feeling, I wanted to capture some of the strange and serendipitous moments we experience once, and often never again, which help to make a new place feel more familiar.
The beginning ideas for this film came from the contemporary music piece Vessel II by composer Joohyun Parc. Through the relationship between the performance and the audience, her piece explores the idea of the body as a container for sound. The film tries to make sense of this relationship to sound in the context of moving to a new city. In New York, I find the sonic experience to be particularly potent. Long after I’ve gone home, I find I can still hear the sounds of the street, the subway, and the crowds.
A rearranged version of the music is used for the film’s soundtrack.
BIO:
Fion Fong (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian writer-director who lives in New York City. She completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins and holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the Waterloo School of Architecture. Fong is currently completing her master’s degree at NYU Gallatin where she makes films that explore the ways people are influenced by place, especially in the immigrant context. She’s specifically interested in spatially unique, nonmonumental architectural sites that are a microcosm for larger social, economic, and political circumstances. These spaces often become the basis of her stories. Some filmmakers who inspire her include Dean Fleischer Camp, Isao Takahata, the Daniels, and Taika Waititi. In her free time, Fong likes to read fiction and bike around the city.
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