The Steaming Bay
Between the waning years of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th, colonial authorities commenced the erection of a brewery in Qingdao, situated along the Shandong Peninsula.
In an unyielding frigid embrace, the brewing process leached the latent warmth and vigor from the barley. Stealthily, the brewery embedded itself within the terrain, solidifying as a linchpin in the industrial iconography forged by colonial powers. This visual regime was an amalgam of the Shandong Peninsula’s indigenous episteme and the colonizers’ imported discourses on botany and geography.
Through this essay film, the brewery’s impervious portals are breached, laying bare an inquiry into the imperial binary of core and periphery. The work ceaselessly navigates the tension between the fabrication and disintegration of history’s liminal boundaries.
蒸腾之湾
19 世纪末至 20 世纪初，殖民势力开始在青岛（山东半岛）建造啤酒厂。
凛冽缓慢的吞噬着大麦的热量和能量。啤酒厂悄无声息地侵入了这片土地，成为了殖民势力建立的工业形象体系，该形象汲取着山东半岛的当地知识系统和殖民者在当地的植物学和地理学方面的认知。
这部散文电影敲开了啤酒厂坚固的大门，讨论了帝国的中心与边缘二元论，并不断地推拉着历史边缘的建构和破坏。
