MORE CARNAGE FEATURED: ZHEYAN LIYANZHEN HUANG - “A BED TIME STORY FOR THE END”
What happens to a universe that forgets how to hold itself together?
What does a world without dreams whisper into the dark—rage, prayer, or the simple sound of unraveling?
This film sits inside that fracture, humming softly as reality comes undone.
A Bed Time Story for the End is a lullaby offered to a dying cosmos—gentle, devastating, and disobedient in its refusal to centre the human. Huang steps away from the traditional hero’s gaze and instead hands the spotlight to a collapsing universe, letting it stutter, glitch, and breathe with the last remnants of collective unconsciousness.
The work unfolds as a series of fragments—small, shimmering moments hovering between wakefulness and dream. Sleepless masses twist in dim rooms while physics loosens like a frayed thread. Churches, temples, and ruins become amplification chambers for a desperate kind of faith, where both the living and the dead gather to keep the world from dissolving entirely. It is tenderness under duress. Ritual as resistance. A cosmic grief so large it becomes intimate.
Formally, the piece embraces disorientation: AI-generated sequences blur with filmed reality, creating a visual language that mirrors the story’s central paradox—creation used to portray decay. There is a tragic symmetry in watching a learning system illustrate a universe forgetting itself. Each image feels like a memory misfiring, a dream half-recalled by a world that can no longer sleep.
This is why it belongs in MORE CARNAGE. It speaks to rupture not with violence but with slow unravelling. It reveals the grief of systems—biological, celestial, algorithmic—when they lose coherence. And it risks sincerity in an era allergic to vulnerability. Here, decay becomes a kind of truth-telling. A quiet, necessary form of rebellion.
ABOUT ZHEYAN LIYANZHEN HUANG
Zheyan Liyanzhen Huang is a visual artist and filmmaker exploring the porous boundaries between memory, poetry, and emerging digital imagery. Working across experimental film, documentary, photography, and AI-generated visuals, their practice evokes liminal atmospheres where personal histories mingle with algorithmic interpretation. Yan is also a writer and musician whose work traverses film, painting, and sound, often conjuring quiet temporal spaces shaped by fleeting perception. Based in London, they continue to expand a visual language rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration and emotional resonance.
WEBSITE: zheyanli.com
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For anyone who has ever felt the world thinning around its edges—this film waits for you.
Walk into the fracture. Listen to the universe forgetting itself.
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