The Making of Crime Scenes

事件現場製造|The Making of Crime Scenes
Produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Video
21'56''
2021

This work is a cooperation with the long-time collaborator, scriptwriter Chen Wan-Yin.

Starting from a gunman involved in a murder case, The Making of Crime Scenes seeks to reflect the collective unconscious within society and politics through the gunman's multiple peculiar roles—a filmmaker, a killer, a gangster, and a patriot.

In 1984, when Taiwan was still under Martial Law, a Taiwanese American writer Henry Liu was shot to death in his own house in the US by a Taiwanese assassin. Afterward, due to the intervention and investigation of the US government authorities, this case was eventually confirmed to be a political murder jointly committed by the Military Intelligence Bureau and the biggest mafia United Bamboo Gang in Taiwan, as the government paid the mafia to kill Liu. In the end, the Taiwanese government negotiated with Liu’s family, who signed a non-disclosure agreement, part of which prohibited the revelation of the case in the form of cinema.

The protagonist of this work, Wu, is the assassin who fired the shot at the time. After the case was exposed, the Taiwanese authorities were pressured by the US, and Wu was thus sentenced to life imprisonment. However, he was given amnesty and discharged from prison after six years. After he got out of prison, Wu remained an important member of the United Bamboo Gang, and he established a film company as a producer with the support of his mafia influence, making several “wuxia films” – refers to specific traditional Chinese swordplay films. In the genre of “wuxia film,” the story of the conflicts between a government and local gangsters has often been the main theme, along with a strongly nationalistic ideology. In this work, artist Hsu Che-Yu revisited the film studio that was once used by Wu and is now deserted to recompose the fragments of the political assassination and the scenes of wuxia films, and he cooperated with a 3D scanning team—their job is to provide forensic scanning service at crime scenes—to make a digital double of Wu Dun.







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