Om | 唵
16mm to digital, 13:24, 2023
Inspired by Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Om is a quasi visual diary retracing the quarantine experience of a Chinese stranded in California during the peak of the pandemic. Traveling between mutated domestic space and contaminated nature, the film explores the rupture in both the personal and the political, as well as meditates upon senses of displacement, paranoia, alienation, and collective trauma.
Screenings
Alternative Cinema Series, Colgate University, Hamilton, US, February 2026
Weekend Domain Experimental Image Festival, Guangzhou, China, 2025
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, US, 2023
VdR–Film Market, 2023
VISIONS2030 Earth Edition Festival, Futuring, CalArts, Valencia, US, Sep 15-24, 2023
Award
Honorable Mention, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, US, 2023