INSTANT CINEMA is a series of one-minute videos fantasizing my experiences on the streets of New York as scenes in a movie.

 

In order to better distinguish between "active" and "passive," watching, I try to control what I watch. Starting from the same street that I pass by every day, I deliberately ask myself to notice the smoke emerging from a manhole cover or to listen to the homeless man on the street corner who is constantly shaking a bucket full of loose change and asking passersby for money. I fantasize about these scenes in the 16:9 ratio frame from film and place that frame in these spaces around New York. The 16:9 frame is represented by bright red tape physically placed over a phone booth, a bench in a subway station, the ground at a park, etc. I create a new fantasized scene within the red frame that exists inside the larger reality-based frame.

 

Whenever I pass through the streets and feel inspired, I ask myself, "Is this what I choose to watch?" I feel that the reality of life can be controlled or not by what we choose to pay attention to. INSTANT CINEMA reveals "the person who directs the movie" and "the person who lives in the movie." ​​

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「INSTANT CINEMA」 是一個系列的一分鐘短片，將我在紐約街頭的經歷想像成電影中的場景。

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為了更好地區分「主動」與「被動」的觀看，我嘗試控制自己所觀看的對象。我從自己每天經過的同一條街道開始，注意從人孔蓋中冒出的煙霧，或是聆聽街角那位持續搖晃著裝滿零錢的水桶、向路人乞討的遊民。

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我將這些場景想像成電影中的 16:9 比例畫幅，並將這個畫框實際放置於紐約周遭的空間中。這個 16:9 的畫框以鮮豔的紅色膠帶呈現，實體地貼在一處電話亭、地鐵站的長椅、公園的地面等。我在這個紅色的畫框內創造出一個新的、被幻想化的場景，使其存在於更大的、基於現實的框架之中，也代表了我從個人經驗所看見的幻想或腦補。

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「瞬間電影院」 揭示了在中性的客觀環境裡，個人視角的認知隨時都正在產生出不同的劇情，形成有如電影般的差異。