This is a science-fiction film in which a consciousness made of virtual data wants to transform itself into an existential human being. To achieve this, it must make another individual give up his own identity, an identity that has already been elaborated socially by others.
The film combines images captured in real life: surveillance cameras above the beach in Nice, furtive images filmed at the Chinese embassy in Marseille, and the burning of a passport. Political and ideological factors are displaced into another fictional world, where the title I am the Other reopens the question of whether the “I” is a stable self or a process moving endlessly toward others.
Process notes
The film is built from materials that already behave like identity devices: surveillance footage in Nice, a passport being burned, and furtive images near the Chinese consulate in Marseille. These images are not used as simple evidence. They are folded into a 3D fictional narrative so that documents, borders, cameras, and social recognition become part of the same unstable process of becoming “the other.” The source stills keep these regimes visible one by one: the distant camera above the sea, the consular waiting space, the document turning into ash, and the floating interface where identity is reorganized as data.
The added frames keep the film’s internal search procedure legible. The subtitle source names catwalk_sequence_02.FBX and the code 90G07L11 like fragments of a file system rather than characters in a conventional script. Later, the black DATA dialogue screen states the confusion directly: if someone has read another person’s data and become part of him, what is the self now? The online double appears inside floating pages and social posts, turning representation into an architectural space that can be entered, copied, and misrecognized.
Festivals / screenings
- 2018, Instants Vidéo (31e édition), Marseille, France — Screening in the festival programme.
Exhibitions
- 2019, OVNi Festival, Villa Arson, Nice, France
- 2018, Æmergence, Paris, France
- 2017, CALISTO CALISTOBRAMALVRAC, la Galerie de la Marine, Nice, France
- 2017, MOLECULAR DYNAMIC STIMULATION, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Links / references
- CIFRA artwork page: I am the Other CIFRA's public artwork page for the film.
- CIFRA artist profile: Guangli Liu CIFRA artist profile linking the work to the artist's online video archive.
- OVNi official programme: Je suis l'autre OVNi Festival page for the Villa Arson presentation.
- Guangli Liu official page: I am the Other / Instants Vidéo listing Artist official page carrying the film dossier and festival/exhibition record.