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She Remembers Desire to be Blue (2024)
Palimpsest (2023)
Foreign Places (2022)
City Symphony (2022)
Labor as Portraits (2021)






Foreign Places

2022, 10 min, Two-Channel 4k video

Foreign Places is a film documenting the cityscape through an intimate family conversation in mandarin. Shot handheld in various places in Boston, the film tries to encapsulate the feeling of estrangement and loneliness of being in a foreign place away from home. The film explores the concept of home, as well as what constitutes private and public spaces.



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