Secret Plane Plan - Immense Floating

Length 5m32s, 2011

Artist：Shuai-Cheng Pu

Secret Plane Plan is a film portraying a transparent plane, an opaque indoor private space, a white wilderness, a lake filled with black water, a tree and a character. The legendary giant tree linking the Heavens and the Earth, according to Norse mythology, is Yggdrasil. It is a Fraxinus extending high into the sky. The tree is supported by three thick roots, each of which extends into a different world, encompassing the Heavens, the Earth and the universe. In the film, the tree grows on a white plane. It pierces through space and its roots ramify into the invisible “x-space” and support the external structure of the film.
The artist wishes to create a peculiar sense of space to blur the sense of direction. Regardless of the obscurity of the images, distinction between the interior and exterior is clear: inside the walls, outside the house, underneath or over the top of the skin – these are separated territories with no overlaps. Without a clear destination, we as people soon forget where our bodies reside. Pu is meant to create multiple transparent planes. It depicts a space where the main character moves and shuttles around. Remnant images of these motions come from daily routines, which accumulate to form another self. It is a complete non-self who enjoys partial control over the body.