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).

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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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).

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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