<< Back Childhood Doomsday
Mar. 2025The work reads on its surface as an affirmation of vitality, a hedonist gesture in the moment before adult work begins. Beneath that surface lies a second reading, supplied by the song itself and quietly inhabited by the film: the piece is less a celebration of intensity than a record of the threshold at which intensity changes meaning.

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<< Back Neural Bodies
Everything Flows, and Nothing Stays the Same
Mar.2023It follows a rowhouse as it slowly gives itself to wind, water, fire, and gravity. Its familiar facade begins to crack, soften, collapse, and drift into another form. Through neural networks and procedural simulation, the building is no longer fixed, but suspended in a state of transformation. What remains is architecture as a weathered body, continuously rewritten by time.

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<< Back Peng Lai Xian Jing
CalArts President’s Award for Creative Excellence
May 2019This project aims to explore the resonance relationship between the media qualities of moving image and people’s spiritual phenomenon. By analyzing the characteristics of film media and the theory of human collective subconsciousness, this project seeks ways to “design” films with its unique methods, and finally achieves the goal to externalize people’s meditation process.

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<< Back Untitled Vlog
a casual edit assembled from clips on phone
Jul. 2024Somewhere between burden and tenderness, it quietly traces the weight we learn to carry through ordinary days through a loose collection of personal, casually filmed moments.

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<< Back Fall·Post-Anthropocene
CalArts Film/Video Undergraduate Thesis
Apr. 2020Constructed from casually filmed personal footage, the film transforms fragments of memory, routine, and digital imagery into an emotionally unstable landscape suspended between intimacy and alienation. Through manipulated visuals, hard-cut editing, and shifting screen formats, the work explores how cinema can distort, conceal, and reconfigure personal emotion beyond straightforward narrative or reality.

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