Movements, 2005 (excerpt)
Running time: 5:38 minutes / SD / colour

Gestural movements gain drama through the relationship between image, movement and sound. This video features Liu Fang improvising with the pipa (a Chinese string instrument) to a heron’s slow walk.

Camera: Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Brigitte Dajczer, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: Liu Fang

This video was shown at the 24e Festival International du film sur l’Art, Montrèal in 2005,
at Arts/Improvisation Between the Arts, CCA, Montrèal, 2005, the exhibition Improvisations at les flâneries musicales de Reims, Reims, France in 2011, the Lumiere Collectif in 2021, and several other venues.

About the musician: Liu Fang was born in the Province of Yunnan in 1974. She graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory for Music in l993. Since having moved to Canada in l996 she has achieved an international reputation for her masterful and deeply spirited pipa playing (a Chinese string instrument). In June 2001 she was awarded the Millennium Prize for Future Generations by the Canada Council for the Arts.