A still from Yi Zhou’s 2009 short film, “The Ear.”
By CLAUDIA BARBIERI
Published: December 1, 2010
"SHANGHAI — Imagine that van Gogh, after slicing off his ear, finds himself sucked down a passage into his own brain, which turns out to be the concentric onion of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Then capture that journey with three-dimensional digital imaging software and turn it, frame by computerized frame, into a five-minute animated movie.
Now substitute the rap star Pharrell Williams for van Gogh. Add music by Ennio Morricone, creator of the haunting soundtracks for Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy of spaghetti westerns. Arrange with Pearl Lam to show the resulting piece in her trend-setting Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai. On the way to the opening, stop off for a couple of photo shoots with Madame Figaro and China Vogue; and sign off on the deal you’ve just negotiated to open and manage a Chinese video studio for a French ad agency. Oh, and put in a quick word for Tudou, China’s would-be YouTube, since you’re now its cultural ambassador.
This is the frenetic world of Yi Zhou, a surrealist video artist whose self confidence and self-promotion bring to mind a 21st-century reincarnation of Salvador Dalí — without the mustache of course, and prettier...."
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Excerpt:
"tompert said the idea for the project came to him after he gave each of his two sons an ipod touch for christmas. he said the two boys fought over one of the devices, which had a certain game on it. fed up with the quarrel, tompert said he grabbed one of the ipods and smashed it on the ground.
'they were kind of stunned - the screen was broken and this liquid poured out of it.
I got my camera to shoot it,' tompert said. 'my wife told me that i should do something with it.'"
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