The Cloud of Unknowing
MovieTitle | The Cloud of Unknowing |
User score | 7.2 |
Release date | Jun 3, 2011 |
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Director | Ho Tzu Nyen |
Production country | Singapore |
Production companies | Akanga Film Asia |
Run time | 28 min. |
The boundary between viewer and art dissolves in Ho Tzu Nyen’s sublime work, The Cloud of Unknowing. Step inside and find a comfortable space in the room. On a screen, a narrative unfolds, set in a public housing complex in Singapore, where eight characters in eight apartments individually encounter a cloud, embodied both as a figure and a vaporous mist. The film is rear-projected and looped, integrating a complex soundtrack and synchronized steam machines to create a seamless and sublimely atmospheric sense of film/audience permeability. (Sundance Film Festival)