© 2022 Daisy Ziyan Zhang
Wrinkles
Video Essay, 11’33, Mexico, 2023
Rooted in an anonymous residential building in Mexico, one that has been lived in, earthquake-destroyed, abandoned and restored over 70 years, this film borrows “wrinkles” as a conceptual thread to investigate the aging of architecture. From matters to actions, between structures and bodies, an alternative literacy is composed that breaks the binary of before/after in architecture design. Dancing between observation and imagination, it explores an authorship that dwells in the easily unaccountable acts of everyday care.
Official Selection, Arquitectura Film Festival Santiago, Chile, 2024
Official Selection, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023
Official Selection, ArchFilmLund Film Festival, Sweden, 2023
Finalist, Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy, 2023
Finalist, 17th Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Türkiye, 2023
Official Selection, Vienna Architektur. Film. Sommer 2023, Austria, 2023
(excerpt “Caretaking”) Shortlisted, Copenhagen Architecture Festival Film Mosaic Competition, Denmark, 2023
Winner, “Transmedial Media Architecture” at Media Architecture Biennale, Canada, 2023
Official Selection, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023
Official Selection, ArchFilmLund Film Festival, Sweden, 2023
Finalist, Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy, 2023
Finalist, 17th Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Türkiye, 2023
Official Selection, Vienna Architektur. Film. Sommer 2023, Austria, 2023
(excerpt “Caretaking”) Shortlisted, Copenhagen Architecture Festival Film Mosaic Competition, Denmark, 2023
Winner, “Transmedial Media Architecture” at Media Architecture Biennale, Canada, 2023