The experimental short is based on a story developed by Elsa Wong who is interested in how memories attach themselves to specific scenarios or sensory experiences that vary across individuals. The hollow Softshell is fed with memories from its Feeder(s) who mediates stimuli through five senses. Feeder(s) tries to transform the amorphous Softshell into a tangible person by bestowing memories upon it.
This fictional exchange is partly derived from ideas of computing and data transformation across inorganic and organic systems. The characters denote the complex computation of attaching imagery to sensation and the logging of information in the limbic system of the brain…
Read an excerpt from NOWNESS ASIA’s conversation with Singaporean artists and filmmakers Elsa Wong and Zon Chan: https://www.nowness.asia/series/just-dance/just-dance-softshell-and-feeders
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