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In January 2020, the COVID-19 broke out, and life on the earth began to stagnate. Human clocks began to be disordered. Human joys and sorrows were not connected, and even the perception of time was completely different... The two heroes in the story had been in love for many years. Girls were studying in Britain, while boys were in China. During the epidemic, the two of them maintained a habit of remote communication, but found that their perception of time was vastly different - a girl quarantined at home in the UK felt the stagnation of time; And the boy, due to being in the center of the epidemic, felt a sense of crisis due to the unclear virus. He felt time break through, surging forward at full speed. The two of them began reading "The Order of Time", hoping to find some comfort in Einstein's theory of time relativity

This concert is in the form of a symphony concert, looking back on 2021 and looking forward to 2022. At the beginning of the new year, the music channel of the China Central Radio Art Center and the China Philharmonic Orchestra will jointly bring a New Year's music to music lovers. meeting.

Young people in a Chinese town lined with ruins, who survive in the black market. The protagonist Pan struggles to get by as his girlfriend and junior colleagues try to move on to new places... The young people's resignation, impatience and struggles with life are vividly projected against the dark townscape.

Poems are blooming flowers in the crevasses, and the crevasse of time is real. A girl who is severely ill, a wild street dog who is chased by everyone, a school security guard who left home many years ago, a delivery worker who looks for the missing love. They are not related but reunion in the crevasses of time.

Ou Yuan hopes that his new friend Xu Duo can join him to watch the once-in-a-decade total solar eclipse. It’s not until Xu leaves that Ou Yuan realizes he isn’t necessarily intrigued by Xu herself but rather the character traits they share. As the eclipse occurred in time, Ou Yuan doesn‘t want to just be an audience of it…

Shaojie wants to go to Shanghai to perform and his father is about to remarry. A huge misunterstanding is on its way. At the same time, the grandfather sees everything in his eyes.

This is a film both about the spectacle and the space, about how the spectacle has caused the mutation of the (physical and phycological) space in which we reside. This film is determined to be the ‘film on space’ of our times, an epic theater, the general observation of the geological structure of this time. I therefore invent or re-invent some terms for my purpose: Archae(now)logy; Ruinology; space bankruptcy; theater of life -- theater of cruelty -- theater of spectacle; the body-film; the New Berlin Wall - Iron Curtain; and “refugees without camps”, ‘the plants”, “the ghosts,” the asthenosphere, dark energy... I have stolen a great amount of found footages/ready materials or already existed films. This “stealing” is exactly the way to get connected with history and the history of film, to construct an “echo film”.

A mixed-media installation project developed based on my video work, ” The first United Ice Cream Assembly closes today ”. I combined static video, live streaming news, found-object-based sculpture and scent together to enrich the context of the alternate world in “The first United Ice Cream Assembly closes today ”. In this project, a sugary scent oil was sprayed on several artificial ice cream installed on microphone stands. The static video and the news live streaming will play together. The former is set to a higher volume, but audiences could hear the sound from the live streaming more clearly when the static video goes to a 30 seconds silent transition before the next loop. The project intends to explore media representations, relationship between our daily life and the media, and how incidents are transformed into information by the media.

A lovelorn photographer lives alone in a quiet and empty courtyard, where her ex-girlfriend moved out of recently. Entangled in her memories, she constantly thinks of her. One morning, she takes photographs in the yard, trying to find traces of her ex-girlfriend. Lying on the bed and looking at their photographs that afternoon, she finds herself in great pain and decides to clear away all the belongings of her ex-girlfriend. During this process she receives a photograph that she doesn’t know where it came from, making her feel afraid and desperate. So she picks up her camera and sets out to revisit the places she and her ex-girlfriend have been to before, in search of an illusory answer.

Xia Anan, the Flower Fairy Magic Messenger from Earth, accompanied by the arrogant young prince Kukuru, embarked on a mission to the edge of the World Sea—the legendary Flower Kingdom of Labelle Continent—to avert the crisis caused by the Dark Demon's invasion. However, at the same time, her arch-rival, the mysterious prince Tabas, returned to the side of the evil goddess, stealing all the flower fairy spirits Xia Anan had painstakingly gathered, and turning her three closest friends into dark witches. What was once beautiful has turned evil, and former friends have become enemies! In the face of disaster, it seems there is no hope of victory! So, what will be the outcome of this adventure?

He Jidong was drunk at a friend's party. When he woke up, the police had already appeared and found the diamond ring lost by his friend that night in his pocket. All the evidence and motives pointed to He Jidong, and He Jidong was imprisoned as a result. Two years later He Jidong was released from prison, his wife Jiaqi had divorced him. All of his friends and relatives also refused to deal with him. He Jidong's mother, however, asked a friend to find him a job on a construction site. He Jidong came to a low point in his life, but there is a woman who has been quietly concerned about him, accompany him. She is He Jidong's first girlfriend in college, Wang Fang.

The forces of the Dark Castle are stirring, as a conspiracy quietly takes shape. What awaits magic mouse in the future remains to be seen.

In Juh e village, Tongfang town, Changting county, Fujian province, the lord Guan (Xietian the great) visits the fields on the 13th day of the first lunar month. The local people are used to calling it “Mud Buddha” and “Crazy Mud Bodhisattva”, which is officially named “Awaken Springfield ”.

The unthreatening little ghost cried at the sight of the tourists. But it found that it’s more popular when it cries, so it turns to a ghost coffee to make people happy.

Nilufer marries her husband at a young age despite her mother’s objection. Now, with a child, life after marriage is not as wonderful as she imagined but she has to live with her choice. This documentary presents a young housewife’s life in an objective perspective. In the film, Nilufer talks about her dreams with passion, but the life she is living is totally different. She remains optimistic about her future, although it seems like she is trying to numb herself with her dreams so that she can stay strong in real life.

The story is that of Taiwan’s history, revisited through a man, Mo-lin Wang, founder of the Taiwan Artist Theatre. The film is made up of two alternating scenes composed of two visual and narrative registers.

Good Placement Of Seeds is a stop motion style 3D animation made by Xi Chen. A person places scattered seeds in an orderly manner, the scattered seeds are neatly arranged by this person. Arranging the seeds and applauding the Frogs will be followed by physical and narrative results. The shape of horror comes from the form in which the seeds were laid out. In this film, viewers can literally watch someone plant the "seeds" to create a situation in which the Placement Of The Seeds is certain to happen.​​

A woman in mental distress comes to the beach, has a dream, and then departs.

Li Ping, a female high school teacher, is a screw in the heavily disciplined teaching machine. Every day with "bad students", she felt absurd and desolate. She has regular trysts with a married male teacher in an old house that is about to be demolished, but she doesn't know when she starts seeing her grandfather who has been dead for many years.

I used footage from the internet and a part of historical text, their interconnection and what produced are not "scary", but some coincidences that history provided.

An experimental film about the relation of Time and Space.

China introduced its draconian policy in 1979. In 1986, Hothothot was born. The illegality of his existence cost his father three times his annual salary and the end of a promising political career. The profound guilt Hothothot felt over what his life cost his family, along with unspoken resentment that simmered between them failed to abate. Four Journeys sees him return to China to reconcile with his loved ones, only to be surprised by their demands. It also grapples with the legacy of the law, and the impact both Maoism and the Cultural Revolution had on Chinese family life.

My grandparents lived in the countryside, they still farm although they are over eighty, the old house they lived in has become dangerous, grandpa was crippled by a stroke. They guard the old house all year round. What will they experience? What is their life like? What is their love like? What would their story be like if they were young and turned back in time?

There is an old saying in China: "People die for wealth; birds die for food." When gold is discovered, people of different classes fight for it unscrupulously. Human connection, in all their forms, collapses.

This is a dialogue between air and people in the future world. People are the rulers of the world, or are they just parasites on Earth? Let the air tell you. Husserl proposed that existence is an object requirement of consciousness. In the future, the consciousness of air will become a system that can be experienced, allowing humans to infiltrate it. However, the purpose of creating this system is to change who you are now. The film attempts to explore the balance between humans and nature, using speculative narrative techniques, replacing consciousness as the storyline, using quantum erasure experiments and Newtonian classical mechanics as theoretical basis, crossing the boundaries of reality and virtuality, and attempting to guide the audience to generate new perspectives on nature and behavior after visual experience.

Ah Ma, a lonely elderly woman suffering from dementia longs for her family to be united again. But when her children stop visiting her, she wonders if her family has forgotten her.

Weaving together folk tales from Hou Hsiao-hsien’s coming-of-age trilogy with her Grandfather’s memories of supernatural visitation in his home, Virada retraces the Chinese diaspora through the stories of mysterious occurrences that are passed down through generations.

Years ago, a Vanjing Mountain woman named Si Fan left her hometown and was never heard from again. Years later, a city girl named Linxi came to Fanjing Mountain to shoot a short movie. She meets a father and son, Old Witch and Little Witch, who are carrying sliding poles on Fanjing Mountain. A heavy rain stops the three from going up the mountain, and they take shelter in a pavilion at the foot of the mountain, each telling the story of a woman who appeared in their lives. Three stories were told. The three were surprised to find that the women in their stories clearly had different lives, but seemed to be inextricably linked. Each one began to speculate secretly, was the woman in these three stories the same person? And was what they saw the woman's real life? Is this life as it is? Or is it a story written by the girl, Lin Xi? Life is always full of unknowns and doubts.

The story takes place between a young couple who is about to get married. The woman misread the size and ordered a huge wedding photo frame, which led to an interesting dispute between the two on the way to move the frame home.

This is a story that reflects the real life of a group of lonely elderly people in remote mountainous areas. It truly reflects a moving story of a group of lonely old people living in the depths of the mountains, caring for each other. The story revolves around the protagonist, Zhao Youtian, who learned that his son would take his grandson to visit him on weekends. He was delighted to learn that his grandson loves lamb skewers. Difficult choices.

Li Bing is a Buddhist nun who has worked for years to set up schools for local children in ethnically-Tibetan regions. In September 2016, she helped set up the Songhe Mani Tent School and hired two teachers, Gan Ge and Lhamo. The local incarnate Buddhist Lama has problem with their behaviors. In March 2017, as the new semester starts, the villagers come up with all sorts of excuses to demand that Lhamo be removed as teacher at the school. As Lhamo is forced to leave, Li Bing decides to remove Gan Ge too, as well as all the tents that serve as the school’s dormitory.

The story of a 17-year-old drag queen based in Shanghai. Through interview and preparation process of a drag runway, Strawberry, a young drag queen, introduces the drag culture through his eyes: what he does, how he does it, and why.

Two young queer Chinese men who have feelings for each other connect over the phone just as one of them is preparing to be married to a woman.

Chinese horror movie.

Upon learning that her mother has been missing for years, An Yanzi sets foot on the homeland she parted long ago. She sells her inheritance and rekindles her relationship with her first girlfriend. The strange love poems in her mother’s secret diary lead her to believe that her mother once had a lover… The island is driving her mad, it is hurting her and has left a scar on the broken memory.

When homosexuality was depathologized in China in 2002, it still remained a taboo for the most. Homosexual lovers lived in the shadow of marginalization, defending their silent love against the prying gazes. It is also in this year that Xia Gu and Amber Zheng, two lesbian lovers, choose to adopt the 10-year-old Ellie from the orphanage. Yet facing the strong opposition from her traditional parents, Xia is torn in halves and forced to rethink what a family truly means to her. At the same time, her self-doubt also stirs up insecurities inside Amber and Ellie. When she decides to return to hometown to take care of her suicidal mother, the tension in this newly formed family mounts up once again.

In 2051, an insect plague the world has never seen falls upon the human race. “Bugs” have become the biggest enemies to humans, that they manufactured 3600000 “cleaners”, a type of intelligent humanoids, to fight against the pest. Leaving the heritage behind, they disappeared into the deep night. Among the remains of insects and the smell of monocrotophos, one of the “cleaners” found a pair of VR glasses. Under the mysterious summoning, she broke away from the never-ending routine of killing, and cast a glimpse into the virtual dreamland human have built for themselves.

A monk can’t pray because of a painful toothache. Faced with the pressure of society and with his own faith, what can he do to face up to the situation?

On a research grant in 2019, Lai Yu Tong travelled to Hong Kong amidst its year-long anti-government protest movement, with only his phone, some money, and barely any luggage. The film serves as a meditation on the incredible and the political by way of the minimal and the mundane.