这部狂欢节风格的短片充满奇幻与夸张元素，如同一场游走于现实与幻想边界的盛大表演。镜头里，色彩艳丽的服饰、滑稽的面具、旋转的灯光与喧闹的音乐交织出一种极具感染力的视觉节奏。角色们或在嬉笑中隐藏悲伤，或在混乱中寻找秩序，一切都如同卡夫卡式梦境般荒诞却令人着迷。导演巧妙地运用快速剪辑与动态构图，让短片节奏明快又略带迷幻色彩，仿佛观众也被卷入这场永不停歇的狂欢。片中虽然没有明确的叙事线，却借由象征与动作传达出对人性、欲望与社会面具的探讨。这不仅是一段视觉盛宴，更是一场寓言式的体验，引人在喧嚣背后反思真实与虚幻之间的微妙界限。

Usually when a museum is flooded with water, something has gone seriously wrong. But at the Fondation Beyeler just outside the Swiss city of Basel, the flooding of the museum is all part of the show: a new site-specific installation called Life by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.

The artist has removed one side of the Renzo Piano-designed building (with the architect’s blessing) and let the feature pond—usually separated from the climate-controlled interior by a large glass wall—into the museum. Visitors can navigate the waters, which are up to 80cm deep, using a series of walkways that run in and out of the building. At night, the interior is lit up with blue light.

Eliasson has also dyed the water a fluorescent green and filled it with pond plants, including water lilies and shellflowers selected by the landscape architect Günther Vogt. The water has been coloured using uranine, an organic dye that is commonly used to observe water currents, and which Eliasson has used previously for his Green River (1998) work where he dyed rivers in cities such as Stockholm, Tokyo and Los Angeles.

In an accompanying artist statement, Eliasson writes: “Together with the museum, I am giving up control over the artwork, so to speak, handing it over to human and non-human visitors, to plants, microorganisms, the weather, the climate—many of these elements that museums usually work very hard to keep out.”

The southern side of the building will be open to the elements for the duration of the show, which ends in July. Eliasson writes that “even if no human visitors are in the space, other beings—insects, bats, or birds, for instance—can fly through or take up temporary abode within it.” This possibility is very much part of the work, with the artist adding that when he first spoke to the museum’s director Sam Keller about ideas for the show, he thought to himself: “Why don’t we invite everyone to the show? Let’s invite the planet—plants and various species”.

The show is open 24 hours a day. “Visitors can access the installation at any time. After 9.30pm they do not need a ticket,” says a spokeswoman. She adds that, in terms of non-human visitors, so far there have been “insects, spiders, ducks, a goose and cats.”