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Shaolin Don’t Stop: Face Q-Editor


Country: UK, London

Duration: 1’01

Type: Video

Material: Colour 16mm film, Face, Face-sensing intervention tool (Q-Editor)

Date of Creation: March, 2024



Shaolin Don't Stop: Face Q-Editor is the outcome of collaborating with a Shaolin martial artist.

This work uses a face-sensing intervention tool (Q-Editor) for automatic shooting, which only triggers the on/off of the 16mm camera when it detects a Shaolin martial artist’s face.

A set of complete martial movements is autonomously deconstructed by all these situations and interventions into fragmented, unrepeatable, and disjointed moments, automatically arranged in 1-minute lengths of 16mm film.


©胡迪迪 Didi Hu


Quasi-Editor is a key intervention tool in the experimental installation-based video works of the Shaolin Don’t Stop series (two video pieces) and Sign Editor. (I view Quasi-Editor as an intervention tool, not an artwork itself)

It is an intervention tool that can intervene in a 16mm film camera on/off by sensing human face and colour. Recycling from facial recognition machines.

Based on New Materialism, I use it to create installation-based videos that exist between definition and non-definition and are the result of all relationships. By strategically intervening with the 16mm film camera, I aim to blur the identities of the director, cinematographer, editor, and performer, exploring the pure relationship of movement-image and colour-image hidden in the organic combination of human and machine.


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