One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean

Filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Yuyan Wang made the experimental documentary One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean to question our inability to accurately perceive the world in its full depth.

Comprising micro events taken from the plethora of 'oddly satisfying videos' all over the Internet, this abstract narrative unfolds as an appropriation. With minimal backing music, the hypnotic and exhausting images depict the relentless agitation of an information society which is nonetheless mindful of its pleasures as well as its pitfalls. These vibrant and colourful images are brimming with emotion and incongruity. They reflect a boundless visual ocean, the monotony and superficiality of our contemporary iconography.