I
Anna
Arabella Landry
A model fleeing heartbreak, her face half-erased by wind and motion.
The Film
Can you live three lives three ways? As much as you may like to, we are confined to our own timelines. These threads may intersect and run alongside each other, but all eventually depart. In Wang Yishen's debut feature Double Exposure, he confronts the anticipation, chaos, and yearning felt by those who enter each other's lives. There is peace in the connections we will never see.
Over a single winter in New York, six people move through each other's orbits.
A heartbroken model rides through the city at night, running from a love that has already ended. In an emptying bar past closing time, she meets a writer without a country, a man who collects the faces of strangers, running from a career that is failing him and a home he cannot return to. Out of shared sorrow they build something unguarded and strange, visiting the quiet corners of the city and turning over their ideas about closeness, memory, and the ways people leave.
Across the same city, a photographer newly arrived to make his name drifts through an art world that speaks a language he never learned. He is chasing permanence, the belief that anything photographed long enough can be kept, and looking for a connection he can't quite hold onto.
And elsewhere, a restless traveler from the South pulls a dutiful young stranger out of her measured life and into a single unmeasured day, where time seems to run in every direction at once and the rules of the ordinary world briefly fall away.
Three timelines, running alongside one another, never quite touching. They search. They find. They disappear.
Cast
II
K
Leo Dong
A writer without status, carrying the faces of strangers like a private archive of belonging.
III
Zach
Zach Wetterqvist
A photographer chasing permanence, convinced that what is photographed long enough can last forever.
IV
Lauren
Sophia Fone
An incisive, skeptical thinker: no meaningful image can be made without truly knowing one's subject.
V
Cameron
Cameron André
A free-spirited wanderer with little belongings, in search of something he cannot name.
VI
Celine
Lara Knezevic
A dutiful worker who fulfilled her parents' expectations of a lucrative, hollow career.
Cinematography
Sixteen
Sixteen cinematographers. Each sequence lensed by a different eye, so the film changes its vision as often as its characters change theirs.
01Yishen Wang@yswinehouse02Derek Matar@derekmatar03Owen Smith Clark@o.smithclark04Malcolm Lombardi@malcolmlombardi05Hunter Maul@huntermaul_06Ethan Tran@ethan.uncurated07Matt Motyl@mattbmotyl08Justin Shen@shenny.visuals09Benjamin Aides@benjaminades10Fengze Liang@liaaaang11Kevin Johnson@kev_________j12Simon Redstone@simon_redstone13Ingridi Viruel@ingridiviruel14Sofia Paramanov@sofiathedoctor15Zach Wetterqvist@sinistermind16Alissa Xhixhabesi@alissaxhixha
The Map
Places to feel lonely in New York
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The Short
Did you know there was a clock on the beach?
Yishen Wang's debut short, shot on 16mm. It established the world, the tone, and the emotional language the feature was built from.
Stills from Did You Know There Was a Clock on the Beach?, dir. Yishen Wang
Team
Director / Writer
Yishen Wang
Born in Guangzhou, raised in Houston, based in New York. Inspired by Antonioni, Tarkovsky, Lou Ye, and Wong Kar-Wai. Wrote and directed the short film Did You Know There Was a Clock on the Beach?, the precursor to this feature.
Producer
Kevin Le
Co-Producer / 1st AD
Donghyun Kim
Co-Producer
Ethan Nguyen
Status
- Stage
- Post-production. Picture locked, delivered to colorgrade. Sound design and mix, and original score remaining
- Shoot
- Complete. Principal photography wrapped
- Runtime
- Est. 110 minutes
- Genre
- Melancholic Drama
- Prior work
- Did You Know There Was a Clock on the Beach?, the debut short, shot on 16mm, that established the world, tone, and emotional language of the feature
- Festival strategy
- Primary: IFFR (Tiger Award), Locarno (Concorso Cineasti del Presente), SXSW, Tribeca. Secondary: Sundance, SFFILM, BAMcinemaFest, Busan, New Directors/New Films
- Seeking
- Post-production partners, sales & festival conversations
Contact
Get in touch
For press, festival, or distribution inquiries, reach the production team directly. Director: directedbyyishenw@gmail.com