Matthieu Yuan

On the film set of an adaptation of the Grimm’s tale -The Girl Without Hands-, the main actress sees her relationship deteriorate itself gradually as the shooting progress. The curse of the character she embodies emerge and pushes her to the frontiers of her reality.

What began as a film about my birth and my mother’s travels to Japan and China in the 1990s slowly shifts into a commission for her new marriage, opening a fracture between the images I inherit and the role I am expected to perform.

What began as a film about my birth and my mother’s travels to Japan and China in the 1990s slowly shifts into a commission for her new marriage, opening a fracture between the images I inherit and the role I am expected to perform.