Those Who Do Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It (2020)
video, 26'17
Those Who Do Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It (2020) is an experimental documentary investigating the intersection of People's Temple (Jonestown) and the first-person survival horror game Outlast 2 developed by Red Barrel. Departing as the digital study of the game, this project attempts to recontextualize the relationship between the mass suicide of People's Temple in 1978 and the game's narrative. Composed by the archival materials from the FBI and machinima made with the game, this work conveys an uncanny audio and visual journey in understanding the self-destruction, the religious utopia, the binary between capitalism and socialism.
《那些忘記過去的人必將重蹈覆轍》(2020)是一部實驗性的紀錄片。它探討人民聖殿(Jonestown)和Red Barrel開發的第一人稱生存恐怖遊戲Outlast 2的之間的共同點,試圖重新語境化1978年人民聖殿的大規模自殺和遊戲敘事之間的關係。這部作品藉由FBI的檔案材料和遊戲中擷取的影像組成了一段不尋常的聲影之旅,探討自我毀滅、宗教烏托邦、資本主義和社會主義之間的二元對立。