Mother

XIN Yunpeng
11 min. 31 sec.
Edition of 3
Single-screen video|Color with sound
2017
5715

In this film, the artist employs a fixed camera to frame a thunderstorm outside a window, while layering in recordings of his mother’s prayers. Through acoustic processing, every detail becomes audible within the screening space. Using long takes and a complete narrative structure, the short film portrays the mother’s religious life and the warmth and symbolic meaning it imparted to the artist. In the final moments, the artist’s own reflection appears on the glass, closing the film with his farewell to his mother.