CathayPlay InstitutionTag: Experimental
A Clockwork Bunny
2019
An orphan mutters his personal history in The Good Place. He is getting louder and louder because he doesn’t want…
Awaken
2017
Centered around fishermen in my hometown, “Awaken” is an experimental film exploring the subtle relationship between human beings and nature….
EXPRESSIONISM
2017
An expressionist painter conducted a small Stanford experiment in a small shabby house while his nerves were abnormal. When a…
From Dark Matters
2020
Reading a voice from a grandmother’s moment of insomnia, the film traces the reconstruction of a personal memory in this…
I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore
2021
Thirty-year-old Viv Li is studying art in Belgium and hasn’t lived in her native China for ten years. During the…
Lost Train Lost Days
2022
I followed a two-day, overnight train ride to the depths of my memory, chasing a conductor who wanted to escape…
Mariposa Apartment
2021
At the end of 2019, in the Mariposa Apartment, I recorded the sound of my boyfriend and I arguing. The…
Nobody
2017
Since Dawei Zhang disappeared, a friend of him has revisited the place where they’ve shared their lives together. Psychedelic and…
Water Margin
2016
The main character, Ke Yi, who grew up in the ruins, unintentionally walked into the Peach Blossom Spring. Watching one…
Weekends
2019
An old Beijing Opera performer who moves to the U.S. forgets his lines on the stage which causes him considerable…
When All the Lights Go Out
2019
I burned the text of Hesse’s book of poems and then read it again. The image keeps enlarging and traversing…
Wrinkle of Shanghai
2013
The epilogue of a young and ‘blind’ Shanghai trilogy. From the edge of the harbor in the first film to…