2014

The Youth's Cemetery

In 1967, the Cultural Revolution devastated China. Chongqing has the most violent struggle in the country and thousands of people died. Numerous youths were persuaded to fight against each other. What the violence left was this cemetery, where about four hundred peoples were buried together with endless misery.

San Li Dong

This is a documentary made by the son of a miner, focusing on the lives of the elder generation. In 1955, more than 300 ardent youths from Shanghai came to the Sanlidong Coal Mine, aiming to realise their hopes and dreams of contributing to the Construction of the Great Northwest. Fifty years later, few of them are still alive. This film focuses on the trials and hardships of the survivors.

Timber Gang

Timber Gang documents the lives of a group of loggers in Heilongjiang Province, China. It records the most basic state of being and desire of human beings amidst ice and snow, and serves as a document of a disappearing mode of production as well as living in the process of civilisation's progress.

Dream Walking

The experience of four artists. They are WANG Yongping, the painter who plans to make a film, LI Wake who does handstands whenever and wherever, in the name of behavioural art, DING Defu the painter who was active in the modern art movement of the 1980s and the web-based poet Bei Bei. The film depicts a monochrome world that traverses life and art, intersecting with China's metamorphosis.

I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked

A man recreates a lost memory with poor means; a memory of the last day with his mum. Objects come to life in a desperate struggle to reproduce one fleeting moment.

Cathedrals

Ordos was planned and built for 2 million people, but it's completely deserted. Ordos isn't just a city in Inner Mongolia but a financial bubble of Babylonian proportions; a symbol for our trust in constant growth and our blind belief in the power of money.

The Private Life of Fenfen

In a feat of editing and reflexive intervention, Leslie TAI captures the family drama told by a young Chinese woman's video diaries, all the while reframing our own spectatorship to comment on the blurred line between public and private.

The Claustrum

Based on actual psychoanalytic case studies, The Claustrum focuses on three women who are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

The Wall Would Ask You: Are You OK?

Graffiti illustrates a page of Tunisia's history, before and during the revolution. This short film shows the evolution of a wall under an avalanche of contradictory messages after years of censorship.

The 561st Hour of Occupation

In 2014, the students occupied the Taiwanese parliament for 585 hours. With the student's consent, I installed a steel wire rope and a video camera to record the scene on the eve of students' withdrawal. This vanishing ephemeral scenery transforms the chamber into a spectacle soberer or more magnificent than the media spectacle.

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