CN: The film works with light effects to which photosensitive people can react negatively.
During the lockdown, film materials for EMBERS FROM YESTERDAY, AFLAME. were processed with disinfectants that helped contain the spread of the coronavirus. William Hong-xiao Wei's transcendental experimental film serves as a reminder of the fragility of the cinematic medium and life itself. In the pure ecstasy of flickering images, intimate physical moments, kisses, and touches dissolve into psychedelic colors and merge into a vast, abstract whole through the analog manipulation of the images. Just as our familiar environment disintegrates, so does the visually accustomed. This cinematic frenzy is framed by fragile shots of young branches struggling to be reborn after the end of the catastrophe.