FILM&VIDEO | Hu-man?Be/ing

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This 10-minute film features a story between a girl and a tree. By using experimental visual and audio elements, this film links a personal story of loss into a bigger question of relations between human and non-human and aims to raise awareness of prevailing anthropocentric ideology and imagine a way of of the maze of dualism.

The idea of this docu-narrative short was originated from my own depression experience of being stuck in Kathmandu(Nepal) in 2020 during the pandemic. I was stuck in a garret room for five months. I felt depressed, anxious, and detached from the outside world.

When I returned back to China, I was trying to make this film to explore the deeper level of emotional pains . I interviewed dozes of people who was diagnosed as depression or ADHD. This short talks about the complexity of our existence and traumas, with a narrowed scope on the connection and gaze between self and the other. This film chooses the form of documentary-drama and improvisation, to explore the "truth" within the film camera. After a whole year's effort and thanks to our doners, the film finally was rendered in the end of 2021.

Thus They Spoke(2021)

Directed by Yifei Zhang
Cast: Hongyu Jiang
Manni Wu

#McCoynomore (ongoing)

An Theater artivism movement

HISSIFIT- BEHIND THE SCENE(2019)

*Hissifit-A punk rock musical is opening this week!*
Check the event on facebook:https://www.facebook.com/events/44436...
McCoy Theatre Rhodes College - 2000 North Pkwy, Memphis, TN
Nov 14-24

Hissifit Cast and Crew talk about punk rock music and Memphis punk

Hissifit-interview with the director(2019)

Faces(2018)

A Silent film made in NYFA