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Song Dong and his partner Yin Xiuzhen (whose photographic, sound and installation work Beijing Opera 2000 is in the Gallery’s collection) were pioneers of China’s avant-garde art in the late 20th century. Burning Mirror presents scenes of everyday life in Beijing reflected in mirrored plastic. The images quiver and then blacken and melt away as the reflective sheet is set alight and small flames become an engulfing fire. Passers-by are shown paying little attention to the blazing performance. Song Dong has often worked with fire and mirrors, capturing moments of reflection, destruction and restoration in powerfully understated performances involving everyday objects and locations.

This is a film about change. In the spring of 2004, three young men, Xin'er, Xiu'er and Shasha, have to undergo a sex change operation in Changchun to transform themselves into the women they have longed for. Another clue is that in the process of Xinyi's and Xiu'er's "butterfly transformation", a bridge in Changchun, built during the period of the Manchus, is also blown to pieces by a violent means - demolition. It was blown to smithereens. A new bridge was quickly built on the same site. In today's world, both individual people and society as a whole sometimes use the most violent and bloody means to transform themselves, perhaps for the sole purpose of looking good.

The story is about a masked person entered（entering） the Art University of the（by） accident, then accept（accepting） the so-called education in the art (art education).when one day he faced independent life and work, he was stimulated to mental struggle and ambivalence. the struggle and ambivalence

City to speed up the process of industrialization, white pollution have become more serious, and inadvertently move a large number of environmental pollution in the use of plastic bags discarded may now be in a convenient life, but for future generations resulted in a lot of pressure

“公众” (“Public”) is a short video of a series of gatherings in public space, recorded in various locations around the city of Beijing during the fall of 2008. When a public gathering may be regarded as a threat to the State, what possibilities for engagement do we have in the interstices between a gathering and a crowd or mob? As we observe people waiting for the bus, exercising, hanging out and becoming spectators to the little happenings of the everyday, the distances between bodies become shorter, and the boundaries of personal space begin to blur. A closer look at the density of "the masses", however, reveals the gestures, glances and words that emerge in the spaces between and around people, and it is here that new narratives begin to unfold.

A remote valley, near Datong in Shanxi province. In this poor region, working in the mine is virtually the only way of earning a living. The coaldust-filled atmosphere is black, the tunnels are black and, at the end of the shift before the bath, the tired unwashed faces are also black.

The film constructs its artistic framework around four groups of people: the "murmurers," the "mute," the "mad," and the poets. Each group possesses its unique way of expression to demonstrate their passion for the right to speech. For instance, the "mute" desperately uses sign language to express his views of the world, yet no matter how fervent his gestures are, it cannot change the indifference of others towards him. As for the poets, who are considered "normal people," even their acclaimed works, which were enthusiastically circulated among the crowd, eventually face absurd deconstruction by the normal group. The failure of communication plunges the expressers into a "prisoner's dilemma." In fact, in every linguistic system, every individual ultimately becomes a prisoner...

This film chronicles three characters working in health care sales in Guangzhou: the boss, the manager and the ordinary salesman. It presents the life of a salesman in the hustle and bustle of the early twentieth century from the perspective of different identity classes. Busy, scurrying and disorganised, the current situation of running for survival is interspersed with the loss of faith and mistaken identity unique to contemporary China.

Malu Village is an affluent urban village located in Shiyan High-Tech Development Zone, Hubei Province. 2004, the villagers drove away village cadres and besieged government offices for three months due to the intensification of conflicts over land occupation, which led to villagers' suicides and other vicious incidents. At the end of 2005, a new village committee will be elected in a general election in Malu Village. The powerful faction wants to grab the seat, the incumbent village chief wants to keep the seat ......

In the noisy urban village of Guangzhou lived a young man who made his living peddling drugs to medical staff. One day, at a hair salon near his home, he met a hair salon girl who never received patrons. They gradually became familiar with each other, and he learned that the girl had a boyfriend who was a security guard in Dongguan.

As a kind of traditional handmade paper in the area of Ninghua in western Fujian Province, Yukou paper is named after its soft and delicate quality as well as white and jade-like color. It is the best of handmade papers and needs to go through several complicated and elaborate processes. In a small village deep in the Wuyi Mountains, Xikeng, there were once more than five hundred paper mills, but now only one remains, still struggling to survive. The film crew focused their camera on the paper maker Hu Lanshan's family, quietly recording the process of making Yukou paper, the joys and sorrows of the paper maker’s family, and the changes of the whole era...

Ordinary people, nightmares in the evening...

Elva Hsiao HongKong Concert

A portrait of the director's home village in Baiyin province. The people of the village have been isolated for years and are finally forced to vacate for the construction of the West-East Gas Pipeline.

Lan Shaoping, the captain of the criminal police, was dismissed for a work error. Lan Shaoping, who was dismissed, found that the champion work of the "Crime Recording Exhibition" showed a premeditated murder, but other criminal police officers disagreed with this statement. Author Jin Youkun said it was her accidental. Breaking through many obstacles, Lan Shaoping's investigation made progress. He found a murder weapon in the Jin family, but it was not until the appearance of Feng Dalco, who secretly fell in love with Jin Youkun, that the truth of the case was revealed...

Sgrolmamtsho is a peasant woman of 35 who lives in an impoverished agricultural community in the Tibetan province of Amdo. When she got married in 1993, she was only 21 and had no experience of work. Through following her daily life, the film aims to show what traditional working life is like for peasant Tibetan women. It shows them fetching water, feeding livestock, milking, cleaning the stables, cooking, household religious activity, weeding fields, transporting manure to the fields and fetching wood for fuel. The images are supported by a commentary by Sgrolmamtsho about her life and her family.

An investigation and study of the Yi ethnic minority's "Tiger Day" ceremony that applies the holistic principles of anthropological human research, while looking for the sociocultural causes of drug dependence behavior for local ethnic groups. The film establishes another methodology different from scientific methodology, that is, to defeat the addiction of human biology with the power of culture. "Tiger Day" changed the traditional characteristics of simple description and interpretation, and was involved in exploring the direct application purpose of the film and putting it into practice, thus opening up a new direction for film and television anthropology. Nominated for a Special Award at the 16th Belfast Public Health Conference Film Festival in 2005.

Short film by Hu Jie Ming.

Short film by Liang Yue.

Short film by Liang Yue.

Short film by Lu Chunsheng.

On an ordinary afternoon in a beauty salon, Xu Feng suddenly develops a kind of anxiety and uneasiness that is unique to that of a woman. Xu is an urban, white-collar worker, and uncertain about the origin of these emotions, and neither her work achievements, the love of her father from afar, nor her boyfriend's comfort can help her rid herself of this psychological malaise.