Synopsis

Dong Jun’s experimental video“When We Are Familiar Stranger, Close But Untouchable” is developed by his fictional text with symmetrical structure, and inspired by the universal but secret reality of life. The artist makes up a split situation between a married woman and the other through a female identity, Behind the seemingly stable and happy middle-class lifestyle, the heroine’s mind is nowhere to go. From this point of view, The Most Familiar Stranger is similar to Belle de jour ( Buñuel, 1967), both discussions started from the lust exploration to the human spiritual world. The artist presents his writing text exquisitely and emotionally, and expresses the phantasm of language rather than love. Love is absent, to some degree, The man only appears on the statement of woman’s “myself”, he is “blurry, illusory but distance relatively”. In addition, thirty-four narrators in the video are thirty-four different women.The starting point of the story is the text based on a male-made feminine oral narration. The story narrative depends on the expression and deduction of different women, and it is beyond confrontation between the sexes at the end of the story.