The One Who Lived Yesterday

Cao Shu’s poetic piece “The One Who Lived Yesterday” uses vivid simulation to illustrate a scene of distorted time, as well as the oscillation between objective data and subjective memories. Using computer pre-rendered images, the piece explores the possibilities of digital existence, multi-angle views, and spatial narration.
In the piece, a voice runs through the film featuring an anonymous, dream-like speaker who tells a story about yesterday. The voice seems to come from a different place, echoing the perspective of a “Progress-tracer” to some degree, from a different “incarnation,” while the speaker himself is hiding. Each of its incarnations is the shape of “this yesterday,” and yesterday just made up the future.
曹澍的诗意作品《活在昨天的人》用栩栩如生的模拟技术，刻画了一个扭曲的时空，作品充满了客观数据和主观记忆之间的震颤。他用计算机渲染的图像探索数字存在，多视角和空间叙事。一镜到底的3D数字模拟影像中，一个声音贯穿始终。这个声音仿佛来自别处，仿佛是困在数字世界的“进程追踪者”，而讲述者始终没有踪迹。声音把5年来作者在早晨醒来记录下的散碎梦话，编织成了一段寓言故事……作者的脸被扫描成3D数字图像，出现在房间里的桌子上、草丛中、石头上、高楼上。每一次声音的轮回都是“这个昨天”，而这个昨天创造了未来。