Blessed Are Those Who Grieve
Blessed Are Those Who Grieve is a collective experimental short / essay film—a fragment of a surreal inner landscape. Two performers torment themselves with immense sorrow in sand and slime, while a narrator from Hong Kong, speaking in a dreamlike monologue, attempts to rename a trauma that has been forced into forgetting. Through somatic exercises, the three creators explore the grief buried within their bodies. Gestures of grieving are captured through 3D scanning and transformed into digital copies so the two bodies become one, questioning how we can share our grief. In a third place beyond memory and reality, grief is born as a creature. Shaped by the embodied research of the creators, it transcends the digital/material realm, flesh, and language—transforming into a shared and liberated presence. Blessed Are Those Who Grieve，集體創作實驗短片／散文電影，超現實心景的一隅。在一片荒漠、凝滯滿地的悲慟之中，兩名舞者匍甸而行；來自香港的敘事者，以夢囈般的獨白，試圖為無法直述的創傷重新命名。透過集體創作與身體感知訓練，三名創作者指認出隱匿體內的悲慟，將痛苦困窘的手勢、姿態，以立體掃描紀錄，轉化為建模 (3D modelling)；將個人與集體的創傷帶到電子世界，捏成新的形態。在現實與記憶以外的第三空間，「悲慟」作為數位生物誕生，跨越語言與肉身，轉化為共通的，自由的存在。
- Year
- 2025
- Director
- Zora Arose Ritz, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Kayu Yeung
- Duration
- 14 min
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- Yue Chinese (Cantonese)
Credits
- Directors
- Zora Arose Ritz
- Directors
- Evgenia Chetvertkova
- Directors
- Kayu Yeung
- Writers
- Kayu Yeung
- Producers
- Zora Arose Ritz
- Producers
- Evgenia Chetvertkova
- Producers
- Kayu Yeung
- Key Cast
- Zora Arose Ritz
- Key Cast
- Evgenia Chetvertkova
- Narrator
- Kayu Yeung
- Camera
- Clelia Villarreal Flores
- Editing
- Kayu Yeung
- Editing
- Zora Arose Ritz
- Editing
- Evgenia Chetvertkova
- Sound Design
- Evgenia Chetvertkova
- Sound Design
- Zora Arose Ritz
- Sound Design
- Kayu Yeung
- Music
- Simin Stine Ramezanali
- Music
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- Field Recording
- Renzo Mencarini
- Field Recording
- Evgenia Chetvertkova
- Field Recording
- The Library by soundpocket Hong Kong
- Sound Mastering
- Marian Gmeiner
- Blender Artist
- Zora Arose Ritz
- Colorist
- Wasser Melone
- Colorist
- Clelia Villarreal Flores
