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Original Film Title: The Literary Mind and Carving F(x)
Director’s Name: Xinyuan Ma
Writer’s Name: Xinyuan Ma
Producer: Xinyuan Ma
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 8 minutes
Film Description:
Everything happened within the last hour before dusk: a writer sits in front of his desk watching the last sunlight falling onto his porcelain bowl, synaesthetically tastes and starts to roam with his literary consciousness: in the changing clouds, he sees a rebellion of points in the Cartesian coordinate system against F(x), breaking through dimensions of line, plane, volume, reaching a curious beach with Sisyphus playing on a pink slide and ancient Athenians practicing athletics with a series of queer instruments.
An experimental film inspired by the archival text ‘Literary Mind and Carving Dragon’ on the history of ancient Chinese literature, but here the dragon shows itself as an abstracted mathematical function F(x), invisible but its effects continuously exerted on point x and y. Looking back into history, this film attempts to re-ask important questions repeatedly brought up but in a playworld: what does it mean to heartfeltly write?