Foreshadowing the Future of Capitalism: Surveillance Technology and Digital Realism in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes
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- dc.contributor.author Zhang, Ling
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
- dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
- dc.date.issued 2020
- dc.date.modified 2020-05-22T17:40:29Z
- dc.description.abstract How has the development of surveillance technology and its normalized intervention into our social structures and daily lives impact our imagination of the future? Does the “total view” of the intense yet impassive gaze of surveillance cameras, combined with the mediated intimacy of social media videos, foreshadow deeper social alienation or the fulfillment of individual desire? In order to address such questions, I take the Chinese artist Xu Bing and his team’s film Dragonfly Eyes (Qingting zhi yan, 2017) and its surrounding media culture as a case study to demonstrate how surveillance footage and various modes of cinematic ontology, digital realism, and temporality work in a contemporary socio-political-medial context. Composed by Xu and a group of collaborators, Dragonfly Eyes is the only existing feature-length fiction film constructed completely from surveillance footage. As a highly reflexive film, Dragonfly epitomizes and embodies the precarious potentials of the digital future of capitalism, both invigorating and bleak, expressive and corrupt.
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- dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/369003
- dc.identifier 2604-9821
- dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i14.05
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62260
- dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2020, Vol. 8, Núm. 14 (2020): Imagining the Techno-Capitalist Society in Television and Film, p. 62-81
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2020, Vol 8, No 14 (2020): Imagining the Techno-Capitalist Society in Television and Film, p. 62-81
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2020, Vol. 8, Núm. 14 (2020): Imagining the Techno-Capitalist Society in Television and Film, p. 62-81
- dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/369003/462821
- dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2020 Comparative Cinema
- dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
- dc.subject.other DRAGONFLY EYES
- dc.subject.other XU BING
- dc.subject.other SURVEILLANCE
- dc.subject.other DIGITAL REALISM
- dc.subject.other LIVE-STREAMING
- dc.subject.other ATTENTION ECONOMY
- dc.subject.other NEW MEDIA
- dc.title Foreshadowing the Future of Capitalism: Surveillance Technology and Digital Realism in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion