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SIGNATURE WORK
CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2023

The Self-Exploitation and Resistance of The Marginalized Groups — On the Use and Development of Magic Realism in the Film The Red Tassel

Name

Yuxuan Leng

Major

Media and Arts / Creative Practice

Class

2023

About

Leng Yuxuan is a media arts student focusing on screenwriting and directing. He is interested in the historical narrative of Chinese magical realism.

Signature Work Project Overview

It is a short film named The Red Tassel that combines magical realism vernacular literature with speculative literature. By telling the story of a rural kid who steals, it reveals the logic of self-containment and self-exploitation of marginalized groups. At the same time, it also intervenes in the exploration of historical nihilistic narratives in Chinese vernacular literature and hints at its dangers. Simultaneously, the absurdity of reality and the rebellious posture of human beings in the absurd reality presented by the combination of reasoning literature and magical realism literature provide a potential existential solution to the spiritual dilemma of marginalized groups.

Signature Work Presentation Video