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In today's world, inner planes keep collapsing,
concepts split apart rapidly yet remain interconnected with one another.
We urgently need a way
to deconstruct the fragmented state of the globe.

"Drifting"
echoes Deleuze's notion of "nomadism".
Individuals are no longer confined by space,
seeking division amid the movement of drifting,
and exploring the meaning of life in the infinite becoming like imagery.

"Division" brings pain yet unleashes potential.
"Drifting" signifies rootlessness yet creates possibilities.

Drifting across plates,
identity grows fluid and disintegrates,
and subjectivity reconstructs itself in ceaseless perpetual motion.

What does FIRST mean to us living in a foreign land?

It is the moment we cross the continent, when we first feel the tangible sense of distance in reality.
It is standing in Europe gazing across the ocean, suddenly sensing our own insignificance and drift.

FIRST is like the embryonic form of the continent two hundred million years ago,
with mantle convection and plate collision,
giving rise to seven continents and five oceans.
The power of tides keeps pushing us forward,
yet also draws us into the cracks beneath undercurrents.

These plates are like fragmented puzzle pieces,
pointing to the
alienation of the spirit and the rupture of perception.
The fissures that individuals cannot overcome
spark a reimagining of the primordial world —
a Columbus-style voyage of departure.

FIRST Active Screening London · Green Light Station
With the theme of
"Broken Puzzle",
it adopts plate tectonics as the curatorial structure.
Six major geological plates evolve into six visual narrative languages,
carrying diverse geographical and cultural frameworks,
symbolizing the
fragmentation and reshaping of visual language in the contemporary context.

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From realistic East Asian narratives to avant-garde experimental American imagery,
from the authentic social context in documentaries to the fragmented subjective expression in ultra-short films,
each imagery section forms an independently logical thematic unit.
They generate dialogue amid division and evoke spiritual resonance amid drift.
The
six major sections embed moving images within six venues in London,
interconnected in a state of
"drift",
mapping the floating coordinates of diverse cultural consciousness.

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The displacement of the audience,
the flow of imagery,
and the overlap of time and space
together form
a decentralized curatorial narrative.

It is a journey through cracks,
and also an image drift that re-engages in dialogue with multiple realities.

Imagery is more than merely an object to be viewed.
It serves as
a wandering vessel through which we rediscover
ourselves, one another, and the era.

 Six Major Sections · Screening Venues 

KCL

Eurasian Plate:
The underlying emotional foundation of realism

Indra Gallery

Indian Ocean Plate: Latitude of Faith

Pacific Plate: The Flowing Artery of the Earth

KCL

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CSM

African Plate: The Fissure of Survival

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Antarctic Plate: Floating Island

Perfetti Gallery

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Perfetti Gallery

American Plate:
Pioneering Landforms of Volcanic Eruptions

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Antarctic Plate:
Floating Island

The sound of ice cracking in Antarctica always echoes at midnight. When massive ice shelves break away from the mainland, those angular fragments embark on an eternal nomadic journey. They do not seek to become the bedrock of a new continent, but willingly take the form of wandering crystals, carving another kind of geological growth ring amid the briny ocean currents — and this is precisely the destiny of miniature imagery. Amid the pressure of industrial glaciers, they burst forth with a sharp radiance like diamond stardust.

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American Plate:
Pioneering Landforms of Volcanic Eruptions

The Americas, a continent shaped by accidental voyages of discovery, layers of colonization, indigenous habitation, and the interweaving of modern capitalism. It is not merely a drifting tectonic plate in the geographical sense, but also a metaphor for the ongoing deconstruction, division, and reshaping within spiritual and cultural spaces. The avant-garde film and video works collected in this module constitute a heterogeneous visual language that has quietly emerged from the cracks of the earth’s crust and cultural fault lines. Bearing an uninhibited, untamed spirit, these works probe, drift, and rupture at the boundaries of form, rhythm and ideology, forging their own unique ways of seeing.

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