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PROGRAMME
Les films de Sheng seront présentés aux côtés de Slow Death de Sogo, dans une combinaison particulièrement actuelle qui fait émerger les effets psychiques de la technologie, de la jeunesse et de la violence capitaliste.
Heritage Architecture marque le passage de Sheng vers un cinéma du paysage, à la suite d’une période consacrée à l’organisation syndicale. Le programme sera accompagné d’une courte lecture de poésie puisant dans les luttes de classe menées sur différents fronts et autour de diverses fractures, suivie d’une discussion avec Steff Huì Cí Ling.
Force Majeure | Lily Jue Sheng
2015–2017 | 16mm | 5 mins
Mercurial Matter | Lily Jue Sheng
2014–2017 | 16mm | 6 mins
Change 变 | Lily Jue Sheng
2016–2017 | 16mm double projection | 6 mins
Heritage Architecture 建筑遗产 | Lily Jue Sheng
2024 | 16mm | 9 mins
Slow Death | Stom Sogo
2000 | Super 8 à numérique | 15 mins
Durée totale 41 minutes + 15 minutes de lecture
BIOGRAPHIES
Lily Jue Sheng est un·e artiste-cinéaste et cinéaste travaillant à la croisée de l’image animée, du collage et de la poésie. Ses œuvres ont été projetées ou lues à l’Anthology Film Archives, à la Cinémathèque, à la Fondation Emily Harvey, à Mono No Aware et au Poetry Project. Parmi les festivals de cinéma où ses œuvres ont récemment été présentées, nous pouvons noter le Light Field Film Festival, le Festival international du court-métrage de Pékin, le Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, le Festival international du film de Rotterdam, le True/False Film Fest et le Kabayitos Microcinema. Iel a reçu des prix décernés par Creatives Rebuild NY, la Foundation for Contemporary Arts, la Jerome Foundation, l’Anderson Center at Tower View et divers conseils des arts locaux. Son travail s’inspire de lieux et de paradigmes liés à son identité de colon issu d’une minorité (né·e à Shanghai, en Chine), neuro-atypique et engagé·e dans des luttes sociales sur les terres non cédées des Lenapes où iel a grandi et réside actuellement (New Jersey et New York).
PROGRAMME
very abstract and a little bit harsh traces the political consciousness of Lily Jue Sheng’s practice through a decade of their experience around unstable cinema economies. The making of Sheng’s Force Majeure and Mercurial Matter coincided with a period of optical printing and their occupation as a small-gauge technician cataloguing late filmmaker and projectionist Stom Sogo’s life work. His untimely passing in 2012 tasked Sheng with handling Sogo’s queer and seminal diary films, which heavily influenced their early artistic process.
Sheng’s films will be screening alongside Sogo’s Slow Death, in a timely combination that speaks to the psychic effects of technology, youth, and capitalist violence.
Heritage Architecture marks Sheng’s shift to landscape cinema following a period of labour organizing. The program will be accompanied by a short poetry reading that draws from class struggles across various fronts and fissures, followed by a Q&A with Steff Huì Cí Ling.
“[A] movie’s reality should be as nasty and fucked up as possible, so we want to get the fuck out of the theatre and hope for something better in life.” –Stom Sogo
“My films have strong animist sensibilities, but I want to talk about it like a historical materialist.” –Lily Jue Sheng
Force Majeure | Lily Jue Sheng
2015–2017 | 16mm | 5 mins
Mercurial Matter | Lily Jue Sheng
2014–2017 | 16mm | 6 mins
Change 变 | Lily Jue Sheng
2016–2017 | 16mm double projection | 6 mins
Heritage Architecture 建筑遗产 | Lily Jue Sheng
2024 | 16mm | 9 mins
Slow Death | Stom Sogo
2000 | Super-8-to-digital | 15 mins
Total runtime 41 minutes + 15 minutes reading
BIOGRAPHIES
Lily Jue Sheng is an artist-filmmaker and filmmaker working at the intersection of moving image, collage, and poetry. Their work has been screened or read at Anthology Film Archives, the Cinémathèque, the Emily Harvey Foundation, Mono No Aware, and the Poetry Project. Recent film festival presentations include the Light Field Film Festival, Beijing International Short Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, True/False Film Fest, and Kabayitos Microcinema. They have received awards from Creatives Rebuild NY, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Anderson Center at Tower View, and various local arts councils. Their work draws on places and paradigms connected to their identity as a settler from a minority background (born in Shanghai, China), neurodivergent, and engaged in social struggles on the unceded lands of the Lenape where they grew up and currently reside (New Jersey and New York).











