A heavyweight in the contemporary theater in Italy, director Bene again forsakes words in Our Lady of the Turks to create a world where people scream, twitch and moan, where the body is a vehicle of emotions and thoughts, and absolute liberation is made possible through a body that is twisted, deformed and out of control.
Commissioned by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Spain, Military Court and Prison (軍法局) by Taiwanese contemporary artist Chen Chieh-jen (陳界仁) is a 35mm film about the ghosts that linger in political prisons. Festival curator Wang says the film is Chen’s most abstract exposition on the body, a recurrent motif in his art, where reality, memory, senses and emotions mingle.
“To me, Chen’s works are something that artists in the West can never make. They (Chen’s films) are directed inwards, taking the spectator into a state of hypnosis in which we see what we think, not the thing we ‘really’ see on the screen,” Wang said.
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