If Approximate (two-channel)

2025 (ongoing) | 11 m (loop) | Video Installation | Super 8mm, HD

Belle Isle Marsh Reservation is Boston’s last remaining salt marsh. It sits next to Logan International Airport and the Boston Subway Blue Line, bordering the towns of Revere and Winthrop, land and sea. It inhabits wildlife and plants and preserves recreational facilities for human beings. There, a broken bridge leads to nowhere.
If Approximate explores spatial and temporal closeness in Belle Isle Marsh. Through Super 8 footage, abstract soundscapes and field recordings, the work captures the Marsh as a site of thresholds, preserving the state of transitions, while also serving as a personal memoir of loss and reflection. The spatial montage and a dual sound channel present the meaning of an in-between state: “What is lost will eventually return but different.”

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EOJ

2025 | 2 m 22 s | Experimental | 16mm, HD

Regulatory signs shot on 16mm, hand-processed with caffenol, and subjected to both analog and digital corrosion.
EOJ reimagines the anxiety induced by caffeine hypersensitivity and the pressures of social conditioning. It frames hypersensitivity not as weakness, but as resistance, redirecting chaotic energy inward to a disobedient mind that defies the discipline of the modern body.

Previous exhibitions:
Antimatter [media art], Deluge Contemporary Art, Beijing International Short Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Festival Video nodoCCS, interlacedtv, Live Soundtrack, Film Church (Stone Circle Theater).

Faux Meat

2025 | 9 m 24 s | Experimental | 16mm, HD

Faux Meat, funded by the North Carolina Arts Council, follows two male performers in a forest as they engage in ritualistic actions with faux plants, natural landscapes and their bodies. Through symbolic gestures such as trimming, cleaning, and planting the artificial flora, the film explores themes of artificiality, queer existence, and the tension between organic and synthetic life.

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Near the Civilization

2025 | 2 m 37 s | Video Installation | HD | Silent

Near the Civilization is a single-channel silent video created at ACCENTRICSPACE artist residency. It traces the artificial illuminations at Zhujiajiao 朱家角, an ancient water town in China. Lasers, ambient colored lights, and their reflections reveal how modern tourism intrudes upon and reshapes an ancient environment.

Gan Tang, The Lake

2024 | 13 m 48 s | Documentary | Digital, 4K

In the summer of 2023, the government of Jiujiang launched the Gan Tang Lake Cleansing Project. Within weeks, this ancient lake with over two millennia of history was drained. Nearby in Gan Tang Park, a boy wakes up in the rain. There, the destiny of Gan Tang awaits.
Gan Tang, The Lake is an audiovisual archive that documents the transformation of Gan Tang Lake and Park. It is an interrogation of what is lost when local history is rewritten.

Previous screenings:
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Revolution per Minute Festival, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Interfilm Berlin, Leiden Shorts, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Moviate Underground Film Festival, Wuhan Bǎilin, Fotogenia Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, and Cinéma sous les étoiles (Best International Short).

See You (Somewhere)

2024 | 6 m 49 s | Experimental | Digital, 4K | Silent

See You (Somewhere) is a single-channel silent video installation that showcases fragments of urban recollections that people, including me, fail to place in our mindscapes. These fragments are discrete, out-of-context, and removed from geological, chronological, and cultural frameworks. They shape our impressions of the living environment in the process of continuous displacement and fail to connect us to real memories. Eventually, they linger as pieces in between reality and fantasy, past and present, places and non-places.

This video piece was created together with the photo series SEEN.

Previous exhibitions:
Non-Syntax Experimental Image (Taiwan), Spatiotemporal Symposium (UNC Charlotte), CICA Museum (South Korea), Ming Yuan Art Museum (China), Durham County Library (USA), Fredric Jameson Gallery (USA), Turtle Chamber Projects (Taiwan), Projet Betula’s Screening Series (France), Weekend Domain Experimental Image Festival (China).

Night Developer + if you stop by

Photo series created with an analog film camera that was damaged in checked baggage on my international flights between China and USA. Through multiple exposures, light leaks, and layered frames, I see the foreign land and homeland by each other’s light.

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A Transition Film

2023 | 1 m 11 s | Experimental | Digital, HD | Silent

A Transition Film is an exploration of the overuse of analog, celluloid, and VHS effects in commercial editing. These effects, often reduced to downloadable templates for quick visual appeal, are typically applied indiscriminately across projects. This video is solely constructed by these templates. It challenges the template’s aesthetic function and questions the boundaries between originality and mass-produced visual culture.

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