Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu

SEA 404 is inspired by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s series Seascapes, and French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s essay The Vanishing Point of Communication. It questions the contemporary condition in which the computer mediates our experience, and parallels Sugimoto’s observation that media has transformed the way we see the world. In this film, the shift from the horizon line to the world of the onlooker is underlined by the sudden entrance of everyday sounds. The soundtrack is made from field recordings taken every morning at the same time and location for thirty consecutive days.

"Neither Buddha Nor God" touches on the fragility, ephemerality and instability of human existence and attempts to relate the human body as a physical material to the soul, spirit and divinity of the world. This film employs scanned raw meat and bones, a medical report, photography, cell phone video and stop motion.

A reflection on the fly as both a living being and a metaphor for the human desire to reach beyond, using artifacts from hand-processing.

Inspired and shot on 16mm film using Camera Obscura techniques, How Old Are You? How Old Were You? fractures the logic of time to contemplate bringing one back to the origin, the womb. A dialogue between two selves – infant and adult; the film traverses through a series of psychological events, transforming memories of the past, emotions, thoughts and imagination.


In In Littleness, we are asked to watch four images at a time. Each screen only lasts for a moment. The waves of oncoming impressions submerge the viewer in an open and chaotic world, in which a noisy childhood experience is faintly drawn.

In In Littleness, we are asked to watch four images at a time. Each screen only lasts for a moment. The waves of oncoming impressions submerge the viewer in an open and chaotic world, in which a noisy childhood experience is faintly drawn.