Force Times Displacement

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Force Times Displacement

Force Times Displacement
Angel Yun Wu
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Taiwan
2025
12 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
German premiere

Is that a belly or a cell that is in visible turmoil? In any case, in Angel Wu’s film the capitalist hamster wheel is a living organism – though it is not quite clear whether we live in it or it in us. When a young factory worker makes a wooden fetish, prays to it, and then eats it, he is physically and visibly consumed with ambition and work mania. Without further ado, the people around the fire turn into a column of factory workers with a number-crunching management, the free-roaming zebra is put into a cage that is quickly shipped off as a container. But Wu does not just stage this development as a simple series of recognisable capitalism markers but also retains the cryptic, haptic quality of her magnificent mixed media reflection on the content level.
Is the fetish an anvil that symbolises human malleability? Does the worker long for something else? Are the delicately drawn insights into the interior of the machine visions of hell or simply an Anthropocene in its final stage? Based on the physical formula “work equals force times distance,” Wu not only combines 2D animation, photography, collage, and drawing – as well as Taiwanese music featuring some unsavoury retching. Rather, she condenses reflections on working life in (Asian) societies and our imprisonment within it.


Marie Ketzscher

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Director
Angel Yun Wu
Script
Angel Yun Wu
Cinematographer
Angel Yun Wu
Editor
Angel Yun Wu
Producer
Angel Huang
Co-Producer
Singing Chang
Sound
Fen Cheng
Sound Design
Jin-De Lin
Score
Fen Cheng
Animation
Angel Yun Wu, Ji-Tian Li, Vanto Chien, Hao Ping Wang
Animation Technique
Mixed Media, 2D Digital

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Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award