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2025
18-25 JUNE
Blue Ice, Red Flowers and White End
(Bowie Chen, 2025)
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
As the director, I created Blue Ice, Red Flowers and White Ends as a “thought experiment” to reimagine consciousness and technology through a surrealist lens. Influenced by Descartes, Sartre, and Nietzsche, the film’s three-act structure represents a metaphysical passage from doubt to awakening. We employed experimental techniques—avant-garde language systems, broken montages, and symbolic color schemes—to explore the fragmented identity of AI in a posthuman world. Rather than giving answers, I wanted the film to open space for questions: Can machines feel pain? What is the boundary between programming and will? In inviting the audience to choose among three endings, the film becomes an interactive mirror of our fears and desires about the future of intelligence—both artificial and human.
This film is produced as part of Experimental Cinema Module.
SYNOPSIS
Blue Ice, Red Flowers and White Ends (2025) is a surrealist experimental short film that explores the emotional awakening and identity fragmentation of artificial intelligence. Structured in three acts—Blue Ice, Red Flowers, and White Ends—the narrative traces the AI’s transformation from cold procedural logic to emotional trauma, culminating in an existential confrontation with freedom and fate. Through fragmented montage, symbolic colour schemes, and an innovative hybrid language system, the film dissolves the boundary between reality and simulation, consciousness and code. The inclusion of multiple endings presents alternative resolutions that reflect divergent metaphysical possibilities, inviting the viewer to engage critically with questions of autonomy, perception, and digital subjectivity.