THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "CyberSilhouette” (Nov. 8-14)

Written By Michael Workman

WATCH THE TRAILER (CLICK IMAGE ABOVE FOR THE FULL MOVIE)

CyberSilhouette

Description
There is an identification with the greater forces of life and death in not just a suspension of the self or the self as a singularity of interpersonal forces meeting with the absolute. When I deconstruct my body, obscure my personage, and simultaneously sacrifice myself, I multiply into a fragmented composite. This process is not rooted in spiritualist escapism. Rather, "I" undergo a symbolic detachment or displacement from the realms of nature, allowing me to decontextualize myself and attain a renewed sense of being.

Runtime: 7 minutes, 35 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation, Any Screen

Director Biography - Yukang Tao
Yukang Tao is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of electronic arts, animation, video, and performance. Yukang’s works have been shown internationally at such venues as the 18th Arte Laguna Prize Shortlist exhibition, Italy; the 3rd SETA Festival “Mitologie Digitali” at Saletta Campolmi, Italy and Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum, The Holy Art Gallery, PH21 Photograph Gallery, LossenArt Gallery, CICA Museum, RuptureXIBIT Gallery, Kunstarkaden Gallery, etc.

Credits:
Yukang Tao (Director, Producer)

Completion Date: December 19, 2023
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
Previous

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Interdeviation” (Nov. 15-21)
Next

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Intervención Inaugural” (Nov. 1-7)