A Sharp Affair

Zheng Nan,  A Sharp Affair,  2016, single-channel video

This video was inspired by a film I saw, The Graduate, which, by depicting the love experiences of university graduate Benn, embodies the growth of young people and they are rising against adult society. The protagonist is depicted as confused and unsettled by the praise of the outside world and under great pressure from the expectations of her parents' bodies;

My experience is similar to Ben's in that I grew up with too much attention and expectations due to my family's status as a grandson. This pressure-like care put a lot of stress on my life when I grew up. It's a state of life that switches between the real and the ideal and is in between. I edited the various message beeps and the Great Compassion Mantra into a complex background drink, creating a false shake of feeling, the light touching my body, and the gaze of the eyes. And the flower that slowly blooms in the water is drowned to the point of drowning by the water that is otherwise necessary for growth, a process of drowning.