Sampling waterside vistas from the Pearl River to Victoria Harbour, the film unfolds as a scroll across the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. Infra-sensory vibrations become reverberant layers, sensing the distance produced by total interconnection.
The extension of a very short film that was projected onto the giant facade of the M+ museum, overlooking Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, THE RID OF THE GREATER BAY AREA takes its starting point from tourist sites identified on an app called Little Red Book, from which it continually diverges to explore the limits of the visible and the margins of representation. For over a decade, the Pearl River Delta has been at the heart of a vast program aimed at turning the region into a global hub for digital innovation. An ideal of total interconnection thus shapes this landscape. Faced with this growing technological sophistication, ZHOU Tao works as a filmmaker does: he revisits the essential questions about the image and lays bare its infrastructure, pushing the logic of realism to the point where the digital image threatens to lose all form.