Pure visual ASMR. Excerpts of videos found on the internet – of the “oddly satisfying” variety – are assembled in such a way that it creates a piece of video art in which loops of sounds and images fabricate an elastic, palpable and undulating texture.

One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean
Wang Yuyan
IndieLisboa 2021 • International Competition
France, Documentary, Experimental, 2021, 12′
Wang Yuyan had already explored the rhythmic possibilities of the super-cut with The Devil In The Details’ terrifying hands. Now, she elevates raccord art to a mantra of ripples and liquid textures that cut across the story of moving images, from the scientific film to viral video, through ASMR, historical archive, or 3D modeling. A mutant phrase flows through this torrent of “satisfactory” images, in a geography of the present that functions as a crystal ball of individual becoming. (Ricardo Vieira Lisboa)