11 minutes, color, stereo sound, DV, 2007
Production: China/USA
Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2007
Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), “Short Film Competition”, Majestic Crest Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
This video references the constructed and subjective qualities of memory, and the manner in which subliminal family relationships intertwine with the question of individual existence.
Cinematography, Written, and Edited by Chi-Jang Yin
“…Its [For the Unseen’s] deadpan aesthetic combines the best qualities of a short story and a long train ride; we neither see nor hear the conversation, but we suspect it’s with the filmmaker’s father. No story is so personal that it’s untouched by the political and economic environment in which it takes place. The conversation in FOR THE UNSEEN ends with a cash exchange that adds a painful layer to a complicated interaction.”
Cine-File, “Crucial Viewing: Short Films by Chi Jang Yin (New Experimental),” written by Josephine Ferorelli, April 30
“Set against the captivating images and sounds of a train in motion, this experimental film subtly explores the fragmented relationship between a father and his daughter.”
Los Angeles Film Festival, 2008
Links Hall, Memory as Innovation, Curators: Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin, national film and performance art exhibition, Invitational, Chicago, IL, 2009
The Nightingale, Fading out/Fading in–Identities in Transit, Curators: Casey Gibbs and John Lou, Chicago, IL, 2008
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio University, Athena Cinema, Athens, OH, 2008
Chicago Filmmakers, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, For the Unseen, catalogued, Chicago, IL, 2008
Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, represented by Hong Kong Videotage, international film exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan, 2007