Xiaoyu again. In this video, her head has been mummified by two different materials, cling film and electrical tape.
In the first scene, Xiaoyu’s arms and legs were folded and bound by cling film. Her fists were wrapped too so that she cannot use her fingers. I wrapped her full head with cling film and poked only a tiny hole above her mouth so that she can still breathe, barely. The hole was so small that her breathing sounded like whistle. Then I covered her face and this tiny hole as well by another piece of cling film, blocked her air supply, and poked another tiny hole when she reached her limit. This was repeated several times until she was totally exhausted.
In the second scene, with her hands wrapped and disabled again, I applied a plastic bag on her head and sealed it around her neck, so that I can mummify her head with black electrical tape on top of the bag. Of course, the operation needs time, and I didn’t want to break the bag, so I added a ventilation pipe to the bag in front of her mouth. I played her breath by using the lid of the ventilation pipe during mummification: first with no tape at all, later with lots of tape on head leaving only half face visible, and lastly the face being fully covered too. The air chamber for her to breathe became smaller and smaller, and in the end there was nearly no air when I closed the lid.
It was a tough breathplay and I could hear her sobbing during the shooting. Do you notice that?