This Cave is Very Large

This cave is very large. About twenty meters in width, fifty meters in height, and some two hundred meters in length. Inside can be found a stream running through, with its interiors decked with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. In addition, there are several chambers inside. The most famous of which is the Tham Phi Man which is as huge as a hall and in which a prehistoric wood coffin was found.

This Cave is Very Large is composed of a few streams of processes - video and text correspondences, live translation of letters with improvised performance, house interior inspections, and lastly, the learning of one or multiple languages. The connections between and within them are not inconspicuous in our globalized contemporary world. But this film is more interested in the endlessly possible gaps in between. This gap has no rules, no map, no compass.

To traverse the concrete islands, one has to shrink down, for maximum possibilities of movement. So, in this film, I had shrunk down, down to the minuscules. A piece of fuzz, the sound of a syllable. As minuscules, I saunter in the unknown topography of this opening, where communication takes place. The microscopic allows me to experience free movement - a movement that digests and dissolves different textures of contact into, hopefully, creations of new feelings.

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2023 / 79 min / Japan, Canada / Japanese, Spanish, English / 1.17:1

Performance by Kota Fudauchi
Music by Kits Shpira
Camera by Xin Liu, Jaron He, Kota Fudauchi, Sabrina Zhao
Produced by Sabrina Zhao, Peter Marrack, Kota Fudauchi
Directed and Edited by Sabrina Zhao