Atlantis Land — Maya Deren Project

Following the road Maya Deren never finished, in search of a continent sunk beneath the water.

A dialogue with experimental-film pioneer Maya Deren — her unfinished Haiti project, her rituals and trance states, the looping dream of Meshes of the Afternoon. The work treats “Atlantis” as a lost yet still-calling land of images, digging onward along her method.

It continues Proto.cinema's inquiry into the cinema before cinema.

Fission — A Day in the Floating Town of Gad-Avia

A town that does not exist, living out a single day inside an algorithm.

Gad-Avia is a floating, fictional town. The work lets it pass through one complete day and night inside a generative system — light, people and sound all grown from rules, no moment ever repeating.

It extends a long-running interest in remaking reality through fiction, handing the camera to a machine to dream.

BLOOP

A low-frequency sound from the deep ocean that no one has ever explained.

BLOOP takes its name from an ultra-low-frequency signal of unknown origin, recorded by underwater microphones in 1997.

Beginning from this sound that cannot be filed, the work asks how we remember a phenomenon when it grows too large to be named.

Future Archaeology

Digging the ruins of things that have not happened yet.

Future Archaeology regards the digital debris of the present — images, data, signals — as the excavated artifacts of a future civilisation.

It does not predict the future; it practises looking back at the present through an archaeologist's eyes: what will be left behind, and how will it be misread.

Myth Cell

Myth is not in the heavens; it divides inside the cell.

The narrative logic of myth is handed down to the smallest unit of life.

The image travels between body and cosmos, cell and galaxy, letting origin happen at the largest and smallest scales at once.

Love and Duty

A silent film from 1931, redeveloped into a performance.

Taking the classic silent film of the same name as its matrix, the work lets the images of old celluloid and the space of present-day performance pass through one another.

The archive is not a preserved past but a present that can be activated again by the body.

Beach People

The sea is always there; people are only passing shapes.

On the border of sea and land, the body becomes part of the landscape.

Through the grain and light-leak of analog film, the everyday beach is returned to an older, more uncertain place.

Virtual Everyday

When daily life moves onto the screen, which side is the real scene?

A domestic space wrapped in digital interfaces, glowing blue-green in the night.

The work watches how life online quietly becomes the only life, and how, within that everyday, the line between real and virtual comes loose.

Thought

Countless individuals converging into one thinking swarm.

Dense black-and-white crowds keep multiplying and flowing, like an enormous brain at work.

Continuing a concern with crowds, myth and collective consciousness, the work makes thought no longer a private matter but a system that grows on its own.

((( O )))

A circle, expanding outward into sound.

Named for the symbol of concentric circles, the work unfolds live through sound and body.

The notation-like sign ((( O ))) is both title and score — an expansion that happens only once.

A Short History of Decay

To fight against the illusion of history, let there be glitch.

History is an interpretation made up of linear signs and symbols. By decontextualizing the signs, images are liberated from the cause-and-effect illusion.

Sampled from Assignment Taiwan, a propaganda film made by the U.S. army in the 70s, introducing the colonized history and the establishment of the U.S. military in Taiwan after World War II. feat. sound artist Xanthe Yang.

Winner of Best Experimental Film and Best Music Design at the 2015 Golden Harvest Awards; screened at Sheffield DocFest's “Memory Revisited: Focus Taiwan.”