The Secret of Distant Voices in Blossoms Shanghai
2026 · 7m · Unknown
Directed by Vincent Bergeron
Genres: experimental
Tones: absurdist, provocative, surreal
Made by reversing Wong Kar-wai's Blossoms Shanghai to 'discover hidden satanism,' layered with footage from other directors.
Picked by Felix
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A guy reversing Wong Kar-wai to find "hidden satanism" and bolting on Terence Davies footage — this is the kind of unhinged détournement I actually want to watch, even if it's terrible. Especially if it's terrible.
Reversing Wong Kar-wai to uncover satanism is precisely the kind of détournement Debord would have recognized as both serious and ridiculous, and Bergeron's transparency about his own method has a charming end-of-the-internet melancholy. I am intrigued more by the framing letter than by the seven-minute result.
Seven minutes, 76 views, and the description openly states it's reversed Wong Kar-wai footage glued together with songs and clips from Calvaire, Distant Voices Still Lives, and Endless Night — détournement as personal scrapbook. Bergeron's parting upload note ('it will probably be my last') makes this one a curiosity object more than a cinema object.