Dreams of Blindness (2025)

Medium: VR Documentary
Duration: 13 minutes
Sound: Stereo
Language: Mandarin (with English subtitles)
Filming location: China

Synopsis

Using dreams as an entry point, this film focuses on the inner worlds of visually impaired individuals. Through the integration of VR imaging and AIGC technologies, it invites viewers to enter a shared dream space—an immersive journey into the poetic dimensions of darkness.

Awards

16th Beijing International Film Festival — Immersive Space, Nominee
2025 China Innovative Imaging Competition, Second Prize
2025 “Star Shark Cup” Global Virtual Reality Production Competition, Best Creativity Award
20th River Film Festival, official selection
19th Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, official selection
5th edition of Intervalli Festival BEST VR FILM (AUDIENCE PRIZE)

Exhibition

2025

Beijing Fashion Week, Beijing (China)

Participatory Installation

The Dream Book

The Dream Book is a participatory installation that accompanies the VR film, inviting audiences to share their own dreams. In practice, participants not only draw their dreams but also write reflections on blindness and equality, and even improvise poems.

When viewed as a collective work, the book reveals connections between the dreams portrayed in the documentary and those contributed by the audience, fostering a deeper dialogue about what dreaming means to being human.

Picture series

Selected pages from The Dream Book—drawings, writings, and reflections from participants.

Translation

We are the same in having dreams. We all close our eyes when we dream. Invisible imagination may be more beautiful than the visible. Wish you sweet dreams.

Translation

May everyone dream well.

Translation

SKY, UNIVERSE, HOMETOWN

Translation

The door was locked by someone. She was trapped inside the dorm. No one answered. “Please… open the door.”

Translation

Her hair swayed like ripened rice. Her clothes held the scent of time. After my grandmother passed away, I dreamed she became a white bird.