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Wang Tuo

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China, USA

English

Roleplay

角色扮演

2023

By generating performance within an improvisational scenario, Roleplay discusses how artificial concepts, such as "middle class" and "perfect marriage", are created and defined by collective unconsciousness. It also explores the unreliable relationship between reality and the presumed truth of ideologies and cultural archives. The film is weaved together by narratives from multiple spaces: Two actors who are perfect strangers are put into a rented fancy living room and requested to improvise a "perfect" middle-class couple by participating in a real couples therapy session. In the other situation, the two actors are in their current real-life apartment and status, reenacting the classic American noir film The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) in first person. In addition to the presentations and implications of the performances in two situations, the similarities in structure and the differences in content between the two narratives question the authenticity and reality of artificial concepts.

《角色扮演》是一个基于行为的短片,通过对即兴情境下表演的调动来探讨 人造观念(如“中产阶级”、完美婚姻”)如何在人们的集体无意识中被形成和被定义,以及意识形态和文化档案中的假定事实与现实之间不可靠的关系。影片由多个空间内的叙述穿插而成:互不相识的两位演员在艺术家租赁的高级公寓客厅中,经由回答常规的婚姻咨询治疗的问题,即兴扮演一对“完 美的”中产阶级夫妇。在另一场景中,两位演员分别在各自现实生活的家中, 用第一人称独白的形式讲述并再现了美国经典电影《邮差总按两遍铃》(1981年)的情节。两种叙事在结构上的相似和内容上极大反差,以及表演在两种情境下的展示和隐喻,双向质疑了人造观念的真实性和实在性。

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