Cocoon

Written By Holli Xue

The Mix: Rebirth

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A still from Cocoon

This narrative-led experimental documentary weaves together video recordings spanning five years, merging documented events from pre-pandemic and pandemic-era state control. It incorporates a performance piece responding to the filmmaker's traumatic memories of that period. The performance, a passive counteraction to the hostile environment, expresses fear and non-cooperation toward the state apparatus. Denied decision-making power and mobility, the filmmaker anchors their existence in both a metaphorical and physical cocoon, as an embodiment of political depression. This invites the audience to reflect on how an arbitrary capitalist system treats the vulnerable and downhearted, and questions the possibility of an alternative future.

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Holli Xue

Holli Xue (b. 1996, they/them) is an artist, filmmaker and visual storyteller working predominantly with moving images. Holli tends to adopt non-linear timeline in storytelling, weaving subtle sentiments into lived reality, and collecting evidence for the record of the uncelebrated. Their practice is based on audiovisual narratives, often consisting of constructed scenes, recorded performance, video clips from everyday life, and spoken narrations. 

Formerly a documentary maker, Holli combines autobiography, experimental video, installation, documentary and performance, blending the factual and the imagined, the seen and the unexpressed, examining the construction of identity narratives from within.

https://hollixue.com/
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