14 Lullabies for Ting Ting (On Screen)

When we are alone together, does that mean we let “two people” out of one heart in secret, or are we letting “one person” out of the two hearts? Put simply, how do we know when we feel alone and when we feel lonely?

In a space, two people exist as if in parallel universes, where the woke one ponders what the asleep one is dreaming about; and the one asleep dreams of the other person being awake.

Between the two of them, day and night seem to be inverted, but it also reminds one of a shared destiny. Just like in Yi Yi the film, Ting Ting visits Grandma every night but the insomniac girl never gets her definitive answer, nor to see Grandma come out of coma. At daytime each day, she looks for her sense and value of existence among Fatty and Lily, NJ and Min Min.

Why does somebody present feel like they are absent? Why don’t dreamers want to wake up? Why can’t the insomniac sleep at night? These questions are a doorway to rhapsodic thoughts, or a window towards meditation; or, they could be two people sitting on a sofa after a film, chatting aimlessly until day breaks.

Adapted from Director Edward Yang’s Original Work “A one and a two”.
Licensed by Kailidoscope Pictures Inc.

Chief Creative Advisor and Executive Producer：Kaili Peng
Co-creator：Edward Lam, Darwin Ng
Video Director：Darwin Ng
Voice Coach and Performer：Margaret Cheung
Creators and Performers in Video：Lu Chia-hsin, Wang Hung-yuan

Screening with : 14 Lullabies for Ting Ting (Installation Version) - 12 mins