If Approximate

2025 | ~11 m (loop) | 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 | 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.

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SEEN

2025 | 13 m 17 s | 16mm, Digital, 4K

A face, without an image, lingering within a discourse. A photographer discusses with his lover a reemerging “ghost” that once escaped his camera lens.
SEEN is a dialogue-based film that explores cultural identity and displaced memories through visual and auditory languages, physical and psychological landscapes, as well as moving and still images.

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See You (Somewhere)

2024 | 6 m 49 s | Digital, 4K

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.

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Gan Tang, The Lake

2024 | 13 m 48 s | 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.

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Mare Tranquillitatis Part 1 & 2

2023 | 5 m 14 s | Digital, HD

Mare Tranquillitatis Part 1 & 2, with two-dimensional montage, aims to explain the vicious cycle of depression and visualize the stigmatization of patients and the impossibility of empathy for others.

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A Transition Film

2023 | 1 m 11 s | Digital, HD

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 takes an approach by constructing an entire work solely from these templates, challenging their aesthetic function and questioning the boundaries between originality and mass-produced visual culture.

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Faux Meat

2025 (in-progress) | Super 8mm, 16mm, HD

Faux Meat, funded by the North Carolina Arts Council, follows two nude 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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