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The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up

The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up

雲在兩千米

Unclassified 18+
Dir. Singing Chen / 2025 / 62 mins / Germany, Taiwan / Wu Chinese / Drama, Experimental, Fantasy / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: MIFF XR

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Venture to the cutting edge of XR in this haunting, reality-bending pilgrimage between digital worlds and a living forest.

A big screen overlooking a bustling intersection broadcasts the news of a terrible train accident, alerting protagonist Guan to the death of his wife. Discovering in the aftermath of this tragedy that she was working on a novel, Guan is inspired to follow its narrative, charting a path that shifts masterfully between the digital realm of her cloud storage and the fantasy-tinged real-life forest where the book is set, home to an endangered leopard and Taiwan’s Indigenous Rukai people.

Singing Chen’s staggering new immersive work – adapted from a short story by acclaimed Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi, and the winner of the Venice Immersive Grand Prize – poignantly expands on the theme of memory the artist explored in Afterimage for Tomorrow (MIFF 2019) while taking the medium of extended reality to new technological heights. Rather than adopting a first-person perspective, the user figures as Guan’s shadow: a ghostly presence moving freely through an eight-square-metre space. Co-presented by Now or Never, The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up unfolds a seamless new horizon of storytelling.

“Both a technical marvel and a deeply moving narrative … The story is rich with tenderness and thematic depth.” – No Proscenium

Writer/director Singing Chen is a guest of the festival and will appear at the MIFF Talks event In Conversation: Singing Chen on Friday 21 August.

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