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Artworks

VR · Film · Theatre

I direct to build immersive worlds, using media and emerging technologies to make space for voices often left unseen.

I perform to inhabit and feel, using my body to move through women’s lives and trace their pressures, fears, and desires.

Awards

  • 69th Berlin International Film Festival — Best First Feature & Forum Section, Nominee

  • 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival — Firebird Award, Nominee

  • 38th Golden Rooster Awards — Best Cinematography, Nominee

  • 26th Shanghai International Film Festival — Chinese New Wave Section, Official Selection

  • 23rd Busan International Film Festival — New Currents Award, Nominee

  • 21st Accolade Global Film Competition — Documentary Short & Disability Issues, Awards of Merit

  • 16th Beijing International Film Festival — Boundless & Immersive Section, Best Immersive Narrative

  • 40+ Official Selections at international film festivals

Projects

All works

Dreams of Blindness

VR

Dreams of Blindness

Dreams of Blindness (2025) is a VR documentary and participatory installation that explores the inner worlds of visually impaired people through their dreams. It aims to spark broader dialogue and critical reflection on mainstream perceptions of disability.

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Vanishing Days

Film

Vanishing Days

In the sweltering summer of 2009, Li Senlin, a girl from a southern city, searches for inspiration for her composition. Along the way she meets a boatwoman’s stories, her father’s missing tortoise, and an eerie murder—strange events that blur memory and heat.

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Qiantang River

Film

Qiantang River

The Qiantang River’s powerful tides shape life along its banks. A young man is drawn into a village where people fight to protect their last farmland. Poetic imagery frames a Jiangnan story of resilience and the tension between people and nature.

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Visible Dreams

Film

Visible Dreams

This short documentary features interviews with four blind individuals, using their dreams as a point of departure. Through the integration of AI imaging technology, the film reveals the poetic dimensions of their dream worlds.

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This City Is Worth Fighting For

Film · Work in Progress

This City Is Worth Fighting For

Developed with 215 People's Alliance in Philadelphia, this documentary follows grassroots organizers through neighborhood canvassing, meetings, and everyday acts of collective work. It considers organizing as a form of informal civic education and shared resilience.

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The Loves of Lady Purple

Theatre

The Loves of Lady Purple

After Angela Carter, the play follows Violet—a puppet who wakes to consciousness after years of performance. Female identity, control, and transformation unfold on a thread between object and subject.

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How I Learned to Drive

Theatre

How I Learned to Drive

Adapted from Paula Vogel’s play, the piece unfolds in a non-linear weave of memory across decades—following Li’l Bit as trauma and identity surface in fragments.

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Alice in Bed

Theatre

Alice in Bed

Adapted from Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed, the play moves between reality and fantasy to follow Alice James—her inner struggle and longing for freedom through years of illness.

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