Queer Butoh 2022 resents Shadowbloo – FESCH.TV

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Film: shadowbloom (2022)
Runtime: 8.16 Minutes
Produced In: Singapore
Directed By: Elsa Wong
Produced By: Xue
Original Soundtrack By: Mervin Wong
Starring: Xue, Mervin Wong, ‘gahara’

Shadowbloom is an experimental short film directed by Elsa Wong, featuring performances by Xue and Mervin Wong. Using surrealistic tropes, the film is a bizarre yet tender expression of a shared dream of nighttime.

ARTISTS BIOS

Xue (@_x.u.e_)
Xue is a Singaporean performance artist and butoh practitioner. As a butoh dancer, Xue has exhibited butoh work for The Online New York Butoh Institute Festival (2020) and was one of the featured artists of the Online Queer Butoh Festival (2021) presented by Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute. In 2021, Xue also presented their work ‘SLEEPWALKERS’ at Dance Nucleus’s Scope #11. For XUE, butoh is the truest expression of spirit.

Mervin Wong (@mervinwong00)
Mervin Wong is a performer. Raised in chambers of string, it took a moment for him to recognize the Viola as his truest limb. The tectonic shift to this deeper, enduring register has shaped his foray into electronic music-making. Mournful but reft of grief. Mervin Wong’s long-form sensibilities rouse our waterflesh. Years of forging his intention allow his process to be bright with speed. In service of resonance, every grain is burnished to the bone. A canoe made of ice. His sounds return to matter. Where footsteps span lightyears. Waves seethe and where the cosmos can glide through an albatross. Mervin Wong is a performer, violist, composer, and electronic producer. He is an artist that is deeply dedicated to the shared experience of sound.

Elsa Wong (@yo.k3)
Elsa Wong practices with mediums such as photography, videography and set design. She materialises by imagining environments and proceeds to build them or finds an environment she is intrigued to explore. These minute moments and interactions between human/objects/environments are captured and presented as still/moving images and installations.

In 2019, she formed the art collective PURE EVER with 4 other members. Within their projects they explore the digital and physical realm and often include multi-disciplinary collaborations. Most recently, they created a film commissioned by Asian Film Archive titled Sunset X which was screened at State of Motion 2021.

Elsa was also part of the fashion collective Youths In Balaclava from 2017-2021 where she helmed the roles of art direction and photography. She worked mainly on the brand’s campaigns which have been featured on i-D and Female Magazine Singapore.

Individually, Elsa has worked primarily as an art director on music videos. Most recently, she worked on a music video for monzoom.xyz’s program- Total Eclipse Plumage which features Subsonic Eye’s track Last Day.

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