MR. SUN'S HOTPOT

A Feng Shui Guideline for Image Maker (Heavenly Stems and Terrestrial Branches)

This video work is a fictional online Feng Shui guideline. A Feng Shui master on-screen in connecting to a person's brain to observe the image fragments in it and, based on that, try to give advice. It turns out to become a dispute between the two. Composed with images from real places like modern residences, high-speed train stations, national enterprises in mid of change, and mining factories, the video gives a dizzying visual effect. The artist narrates the words mixed with humorous, personal, and authoritarian languages. The work concerns the complex relationship between medium, feelings and narratives, and how a personal destiny can be narrated in relation to specific spatial-physicality.

The Sea Within

2014 · ★ 3

Fishermen couple Ah Shing and Mei-wah, having lived from boat to shore, stayed together for most of their lives. After their son grew up, they have different visions towards the rest of their days. Ah Shing insists on fishing amid the decline of the local fishing industry. Mei-wah works as a factory worker and wishes for a more stable life. Even when there are subtle and profound changes in their relationships due to the different views, their affections for each other never stopped and they still support each other. This story is based on the real-life experience of the director's parents, and they play their own character in the film.

Anti-Bone Students

2015

After witnessing the sudden death of a student in a classroom, a cowardly young teacher will face a whole classroom of students who have not yet died suddenly, as well as his own indistinguishable past, in which he exhibits his "name view" in preaching and self-doubt, and a class will pass.

River Straying

2019

A man who was hiding for 7 years to avoid creditors has embarked on his journey home because of the death of his mother. On the way back home, the childhood memories stroke him constantly just like dreams. In search of a notebook full of poems written for his ex-wife, he went to the former factory to find an old friend. Elsewhere in the city, three senior students are talking about their future plans. All the wandering man under the bridge, the little boy in his childhood and the young senior students, imperceptibly but inexorably are linked together by the river, and the memory has been revived.....

CYPRIDINA

2021

This film is about the story of the main character and his younger brother, the younger brother saw the comic book of the main character, in his brain, he had a fight of animal chess related to memory. The younger brother belongs to the green party, the elder brother belongs to the orange party, at last the elder brother lost and the younger brother won in his consciousness, the younger brother took the elder brother to see the future elder brother in the heart of the younger brother.

We Outlaws

2018

By day Chen Shi works in a textiles factory and at night dons a red dress and takes to the dance hall. We Outlaws is the story of just one of countless Trans and non-binary people who lived their lives in secret during an era of strict governmental prohibition, their very existence a crime.

Call If You Need Me

2009 · ★ 10

Gentle, easy-going Or Kia moves from the countryside to Kuala Lumpur to work for his cousin and best friend Ah Soon, a mid-level gangster and enforcer. While Or Kia works hard to put a sister through school, Ah Soon cares for an unstable girlfriend prone to mysterious disappearances. As they both sink deeper into a nocturnal world of debts, drugs, and betrayal, Or Kia's loyalties are strained when Ah Soon falls out of favor with the bosses and tries to escape the business.

I DON'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONTEST

2020

Ma Wankun, a 13 years old teenager, was under pressure from the high school entrance exam. His parents arranged him to take part in an already-decided badminton match to gain extra points. However, Ma Wankun wanted to quit the competition in his own way, which was opposed by his parents and teachers.

SMOKE

2009

Tian Yuan and Da Bing were brothers who had been in contact for many years. They gradually alienated but at the same time fell in love with a girl who dances like a nightclub. In the entanglement of love and brotherhood, youth ends in a group fight for their love. . Love and hatred, like smoke, silk, and thread, became the past...

Island

2022

A passenger on a bus, a man with a barrel on his head, and when they meet, the two worlds are connected...

A Farewell

2017

Danni, a young Chinese girl, comes home to pay her respect to her late grandfather. Out of place in the traditional Muslim environment, she unearths a hidden secret of her past and thus embarks on a journey, against her parents’wishes, in the suppressed but mesmerising world of Islamic culture in modern China.

Capture Ghosts

2018 · ★ 9

Four college students from Shandong University of Technology planned to make a documentary about the folk culture of ghosts and spirits. They went to a village in Heze City, Shandong Province, and made some interviews with local villagers. During the interviews, they heard a lot of local weird tales. The shooting of the documentary went smoothly, and that night, they chose to stay in the village. At this point, strange things, however, began to happen...