Compound Eye Syndrome | 复眼症
16mm to digital, 13:41, 2026
Made in Shanghai, Compound Eye Syndrome emerges from the city’s endless cycles of construction and destruction, tracing the retinal repulsion produced by a landscape in constant transformation. The film takes a haptic journey through urban spaces that remain, have been erased, once existed, are newly born, or linger in the liminal states in between.
Through hand-processed expired film stock, archival images, and street views, Compound Eye Syndrome contemplates how we look at and remember a city whose image is perpetually being overwritten. Moving between material decay and urban renewal, the film asks what remains visible—and what persists in memory—when the spaces around us are continuously disappearing and reappearing.