The film does not have a plot in the classical sense; rather, it depicts a process from birth to death, presenting the everyday events that influence human life. From a world that also includes dramatic, warlike events, we arrive at a more abstract, transcendental resolution.

In my paintings, I animate the movement of bodies by painting them phase by phase. Meanwhile, I take photographs of the painting process, and from the material of these painted images, I create an animated film with the help of the photographs. The film reflects a fatalistic concept, as the phases are pre-drawn on the canvas (“Everything is written!”), and their fate is fulfilled during the act of painting. During the process, the later layers always cover and erase elements of the earlier visual information; with this, I aim to express memories and mental images that fade or are destroyed over time.

The title Materia Prima refers to the basis of the formation of forms—the all-encompassing primordial matter. Structurally, each painting constitutes the material of a film scene, which are linked together in a chain-like manner; thus they can be rearranged, condensed, and continued “infinitely” through the use of new paintings. My work takes on a conceptual, multimedia character, as I exhibit the paintings together with the film and its accompanying sound effects and noises, thereby expanding each other’s meanings and mutually interpreting one another.

The artworks featured in the film can be viewed by clicking here.