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In the film world, the tag �experimental� generally does not bode well; bulk-translating to pseudo-bohemian types with camera phones and quote unquote lofty intellectualism, who spend their time baulking at the general public�s failure to understand how filming people wearing their clothes backwards translates to next generation fluxus.
Medicine, however, is the kind of experimental film that is accessible enough to remain thoughtful, even intriguing, for the likes of you. A high falutin� rumination on family, genetic predisposition and memory, Tang�s film is a family history deconstructed to the inner workings of the Vitamin B12. Presented in a three way split screen that shows cell graphics, figures floating through space, and family photos, Ellen takes behaviour and relation, and shows them in scientific context through three generations of the women in her family.
To the scholarly among you, Tang�s film is unapologetically an experimental documentary, despite the obvious oxymoron at play in attempting to both centrally distort and present information. And if documentary is most clearly a representation of fact, then Tang�s interest in extrapolating out from the base building blocks of the human body is an interesting one; but her decision to ultimately layer the stories together; to distort the speech and voiceover to a reductive clutter of noise, looping facts, suggests that the how of the matter is ultimately something that�s only capable of being felt rather than explained.
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