简介:"Sinofuturism is an invisible movement. A spectre already embedded into a trillion industrial products, a billion individuals, and a million veiled narratives. It is a movement, not based on individuals, but on multiple overlapping flows. Flows of populations, of products, and of processes. Because Sinofuturism has arisen without conscious intention or authorship, it is often mistaken for contemporary China. But it is not. It is a science fiction that already exists.Sinofuturism is a video essay combining elements of science fiction, documentary melodrama, social realism, and Chinese cosmologies, in order to critique the present-day dilemmas of China and the people of its diaspora.With reference to Afrofuturism and Gulf Futurism, Sinofuturism presents a critical and playful approach to subverting cultural clichés.In Western media and Orientalist perceptions, China is exotic, strange, bizarre, kitsch, tacky, or cheap. In its domestic media, China portrayed as heroic, stable, historic, grand, and unified. Rather than counteract these skewed narratives, Sinofuturism proposes to push them much further.By embracing seven key stereotypes of Chinese society (Computing, Copying, Gaming, Studying, Addiction, Labour and Gambling), it shows how China's technological development can be seen as a form of Artificial Intelligence."
简介:电影《长城》讲述了在古代,一支中国精英部队为保卫人类,在举世闻名的长城上与怪兽饕餮进行生死决战的故事。欧洲雇佣军威廉(马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰)与同伴佩罗·托瓦尔(佩德罗·帕斯卡 Pedro Pascal 饰)不远万里来到中国盗取火药配方,意外发现了长城是为抵御60年降临人间一次的饕餮所建。长城内部机关重重,宛如“陆上航母”,由无影禁军世代镇守。在这里,威廉见识了饕餮的凶残,也见证了无影禁军的精锐和勇敢,并被这群战士之间的信任和牺牲所感动,义无反顾地加入到了共同守护人类的战斗当中。