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DOKU the Self

As the first narrative film, DOKU the Self, which premiered at this year’s Venice Biennale, introduces six virtual reincarnations of LuYang. Reminiscent of superheroes, gaming and anime characters, as well as deities and demons, these avatars embody different aspects of LuYang’s self. At the same time, each represents one of the six realms of samsara—the karmic wheel of life—and refers to the eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. In LuYang’s work, Samsara takes on different forms: virtual landscapes that resemble worlds of experience in video games, or a kind of gigantic reincarnation roulette that can be controlled by the player with a video game console.

DOKU the Self

NR 2022
Memory

A homeless man, Maezono, has lost his memory of the past. One day, a women, Rina, who identifies herself as his stepsister, visits Maezono. She is a younger sister of his wife, Aki, and confesses that his wife was murdered 2 months ago and the murderer is not captured yet. Maezono trusts words of Rina and start exploring Maezono’s memory to track a shadow of the murderer. However, truth of his past from discovered memories reveals a series of unwanted reality. The game of life with love and malicious intentions around Aki… Witness the answer after they discovered everything.

Memory

NR 2022
Enter Your Dream

Sometimes, we may hear some inner whisper in our mind or the direct sense to tell us what to do. Maybe it is a reminder of our future. We always look back on our life, asking what if I did not make that decision? What would happen? The protagonist in the play, Elder Hana, finds that she has the opportunity to return to her own consciousness in the past. She wants to change her decision. That made her realise that the personality shaped by herself is also lovely. The decision made in the past is not a concern anymore.

Enter Your Dream

NR 2022
Bye Bye Barrier!

One early morning in November 2022, Guangzhou announced the unblocking of the east and west corners of Haizhu District, and the middle blocked area was surrounded by water-filled barriers and tin walls overnight - which was called "one district, two regulations" by citizens. Hanlu, who lived in west Haizhu District, asked her friends if they needed her supplies before she leaving Guangzhou, and Wan Qing, who lived in middle Haizhu, claimed some of the ingredients. The two made an appointment to meet at the water-filled barriers at the blocked border and filmed along the way. After the editing of their own perspectives, they combined them to form this two-screen video.

Bye Bye Barrier!

NR 2022
The Eternal Jinshan Temple

Jinshan Temple is the only Buddhist temple built on water in China, which dates back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), almost a thousand years in the past. Observant Buddhist believers often converge here to perform a rite known as "fangsheng", or "life release", which refers to the practice of saving animals from captivity and releasing them into the water. The film tries to form a slice of the history of this eternal artificial architecture through ecology, geography and folklore. A Gopro camera was tied to a turtle that was released in the river to inspect the underwater space of the temple.

The Eternal Jinshan Temple

NR 2022