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Dawn Breaking is the opening chapter of Yang Fudong’s Museum Film Project. The idea of the series first conceived while Yang worked on his solo exhibition in Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in 2005. After more than a decade, the first episode has been fulfilled this year in Shanghai Long Museum. Yang set the background of “Dawn Breaking” in Song dynasty which was prominent for achievements in art, culture and science. He also extracted nearly three hundred sentences of Nietzsche’s Quotations as the exclusive script. Live performance in the context of ancient oriental history intertwines with the quotes of desire, and power from the German philosopher. A modern interpretation towards the feelings of scholar-officials in Song Dynasty is revealed. Two central filming locations set up inside the museum have involved into more than ten scenes, such as “Competing for the Throne”, “The Deserted Pagoda” and “The Staircase of Ministers” etc. The public viewing of the filming process and the edited footages presented in the Dailies section of Dawn Breaking constitute the main body of the art work. The artist-led the crew of actors and the production team to carry out enormous durational “performances” at the primary filming location and the other site, Pagoda of life. The “Dawn Breaking” Dailies section connects the two filming locations and showcases fragmented video clips from the previous filming day, which was updated daily on 36 screens throughout filming. Different from exhibitions in the traditional sense, the artist’s long-term presence, the simultaneity between filming and audience’s viewing experience, as well as the subversion of the definition of an exhibition, a film and art-making have all fulfilled during this grand exhibition.

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https://nitro.download/view/7E7631BB131BF5E/Dawn_Breaking.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/EF57E28E15A63AC/Dawn_Breaking.srt

Language:Chinese
Subtitles:English

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Filmed over five years from 1997 to 2002, Yang’s first black and white movie tells the story of Zhuzi, a young intellectual, who has consulted countless doctors over his “illness”. Without any physical symptoms pointing to a definitive diagnosis, one is led to assume that the character’s illness is far more deep-seated and psychologically driven. A central theme of Yang’s work is the urban intellectual’s psyche, the generation who is old enough to remember life before the re-opening of China’s economy, while spending their formative years in a modernizing China. For many, these rapid changes left them feeling estranged from society. The unclear symptoms of Zhuzi refer to this disrupted inner balance – the constant pressure to adapt, which in turn causes a restless dissatisfaction that finally results in an intense but silent psychological drama.

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Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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