A wistful but witty account of a trip to Beijing by filmmaker Viv Li, a Chinese art student who has been living abroad for ten years. Her stay with her family mercilessly exposes how uprooted she has become by her life abroad.
Every form of communication involves deciphering codes. In Before Then, Mengzhu Xue attempts to confess a secret in the form of a letter in English, which she writes out phonetically in Chinese, and asks her grandmother to read out loud.
Built entirely within the Grand Theft Auto video game engine, Workprint: De Facto Vela Incident recontextualises historical archives to explore geopolitics, secrecy, and the blurred lines between reality and simulation.
