Better Lovers
Chapter 2:
A Wet Bio Coder
A voice guides you across a field, under your fingertips and around your soft palate. You will be hypnotized. You will wander and trespass. With calibrated words and spinning objects you will hear what you want to hear, the flashing moments layering themselves seamlessly into consciousness. The wheel is humming gently.
Chapter 2: A Wet Bio Coder premiered in Zagreb at the Interface Festival in 2020, and was screened in 2021 at Kinesthesia in London, Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival in Tokyo, the Single Channel Film Festival in Vermont, Athens International Film + Video Festival in Ohio, WNDX Festival of Moving Image in Winnipeg, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in the UK.
single channel video
8:29
2020
“Chapter 2: A Wet Bio Coder is a hypnotic, textural assemblage of human and non-human material processes. Comprising mesmeric visuals, choreographed objects and the sensual making of a clay pot in an open field, the film pairs jolting mechanical sounds and vibrations with a meditative voice guiding a cartography of being and becoming.” – Kerry Jones, Alchemy Moving Image Festival
Chapter 2: A Wet Bio Coder premiered in Zagreb at the Interface Festival in 2020, and was screened in 2021 at Kinesthesia in London, Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival in Tokyo, the Single Channel Film Festival in Vermont, Athens International Film + Video Festival in Ohio, WNDX Festival of Moving Image in Winnipeg, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in the UK.
single channel video
8:29
2020
“Chapter 2: A Wet Bio Coder is a hypnotic, textural assemblage of human and non-human material processes. Comprising mesmeric visuals, choreographed objects and the sensual making of a clay pot in an open field, the film pairs jolting mechanical sounds and vibrations with a meditative voice guiding a cartography of being and becoming.” – Kerry Jones, Alchemy Moving Image Festival
A film by
Better Lovers + Hsin-Yu Chen
With Layla Marcelle, Amy Shindo, Gerald Brown and Ana Mosquera
Director of Photography// Xia Zhong
Production Design// Better Lovers
Assistant Camera// James Yealy + Kyungchung Min
Art Assistant// Jeff Werner
Production Assistant// Juliana Wisdom
Editing// Hsin-Yu Chen
Colorist// Kyungchung Min
Sound Mix// Peiju Wang
Animation// Matthew Shackelford
Better Lovers + Hsin-Yu Chen
With Layla Marcelle, Amy Shindo, Gerald Brown and Ana Mosquera
Director of Photography// Xia Zhong
Production Design// Better Lovers
Assistant Camera// James Yealy + Kyungchung Min
Art Assistant// Jeff Werner
Production Assistant// Juliana Wisdom
Editing// Hsin-Yu Chen
Colorist// Kyungchung Min
Sound Mix// Peiju Wang
Animation// Matthew Shackelford
