* Special screening for Ars Electronica Festival 2020. Valid until Oct 15, 2020. Bodyless is a surreal VR experience based on the director’s childhood memory during Taiwan’s martial law period in the 1970s. The player becomes a deceased political prisoner’s ghost in his journey to find his way home.

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* Special screening for Ars Electronica Festival 2020. Valid until Oct 15, 2020.

Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation category of Prix Ars Electronica
2020.
Special Mention of 2019 Kaohsiung Film Festival.

Bodyless is a surreal VR experience based on the director’s childhood memory
during Taiwan’s martial law period in the 1970s, when human qualities were
simplified and quantified with few characteristics recognized and measured by
the ruling class. The player becomes a deceased political prisoner’s ghost in
his journey to find his way home.

Although the era has long gone, the emerging digital technologies follows
suit. Governments started to use new technologies like digital surveillance,
big data and AI as means to monitor and control people. Powerful world leader
uses tweets less than 140 characters to set the course for his country. Human
beings are reduced to a few pixels on the screen and left to the military
drone pilot to decide for their lives.

In Bodyless, the retrospective martial law governing and ultramodern digital
technologies are fused into a dark oppression against folk’s living and
beliefs. The audience experiences the journey through the eyes of an old man
who was a political criminal under a government’s secret experiment. After his
death, he became a ghost and descended to the underworld. In Taiwanese folk
belief, during “Ghost Month”, the hell gate will open for ghosts to visit
their families. The old man’s ghost makes up his face and ascends to earth.
Through his eyes, the folk culture forms a rich spiritual world interwoven
with nature. However, a mechanical force starts to deteriorate the spiritual
world and eventually reduces human forms and memory into simple geometrical
shapes that can be easily processed by the technologies.

Bodyless