Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

EYES WIDE OPEN: A sample of Le Fresnoy’s films

One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean

France
2020 — 11' / Color

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Synopsis

One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Made up of micro-events from "satisfying video" that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through an appropriation way by referring to trance and minimal music. It's about a desire for groundless waves, blended with today's inexorable entropy of our information societies.

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Director Biography

Wang Yuyan (b. 1989, China) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist living in Paris. She graduated from Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts in 2020 and Beaux-Arts of Paris in 2016. She takes inspiration from the endless media production underpinned by industrial productivity. Her works oscillate between film and installation, often in an immersive perspective with a disintegrating abstraction process.

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Director

Wang Yuyan

Producer

Le Fresnoy

Cinematographer

Wang Yuyan

Editor

Wang Yuyan

Sound

Raphaël Hénard

Contact

Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts
22 rue du Fresnoy - BP 80179
59202 Tourcoing cedex - France
+33(0)3 20 28 38 00
[email protected]