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sRAMrelevrat
Since: Jun, 2021
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2023-02-17 16:15:34
It's entirely likely this film was made specifically for this particular art installation, and isn't something you can track down on You Tube or find on DVD. The title of the art piece, "Time Travel", is perhaps also the film's title.
sRAMrelevrat
Since: Jun, 2021
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Since: May, 2021
sRAMrelevrat
Since: Jun, 2021
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Since: May, 2021
sRAMrelevrat
Since: Jun, 2021

So, a couple years ago I went to an art exhibition at the college where my father works at, and among the pieces there was this rather confusing "experimental" CGI film- it was playing on what appeared to be infinite loop on a TV screen, and due to the fact that it was composed of various vignettes with no real sense of plot or order.
The vignettes were all focused on a vaguely Asian-looking woman in a clean, sterile, Ascetic Aesthetic sci-fi-y place as she did different things. I remember clearly that she exercised by running on a treadmill with a screen in front of her showing a forest path- this was our only glimpse of a "natural" outdoors environment. Each and every vignette seemed to possess a theme of the woman breaking through the place she was in and revealing something bizarre and impossible- once she broke through the wall to reveal motionless copies of herself standing in some kind of void room, and once she did... something that I don't remember... and ended up creating a floating, perfectly spherical blob of water about half her height. She never seemed to recall the events of any previous vignette, and also never spoke aloud.
There was a little plaque on the wall next to the TV screen that explained a few things, although not what was actually going on in there- it just said that the title (which was some word in an Asian language, possibly Korean) meant something like "Time Travel" or "breaking through" or "transcendence".
(I suppose the fact that this seems to be a Korean project means that I should list this as "Asian Animation" or "Anime", but that would give the totally wrong impression as to what the film it was like- it was, above all, bizarre, surreal, and pretty confusing)