Red Threads (我很爱你!) is a single-channel video that navigates the simultaneous existence of filial love and filial guilt within the experience of a Chinese Parachute Kid studying for years in the West, away from home. Initially inspired by the Tang dynasty poem Song of the Wanderer and Red Threads as lines of fate in Chinese culture, the artist utilizes a combination of Live-action Cinema, Sims 4 Machinima, Browser/Webcam framing, and Sewing to perform a filial ritual by building a simulation of 1) her American, 2) her Chinese and 3) her Chinese American experience. Looking at the screen not as a portal but as an interface, the artist reaches across the game space to manifest her belongings. The Parachute Kid experience is akin to a life-simulation game manufactured by the U.S. government and institutions with substantial economic incentives that, in turn, help US educational institutions run. Existing as “psychologically nowhere,” Sims 4 brings the artist’s Parachute experience into a true state of being “psychologically everywhere.” Meanwhile, the artist’s “self” layers become increasingly entangled.

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AWARDS 
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the Experimental Shorts category at Slamdance Film Festival 2023  Winner of Best Experimental Film at Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology 2023 
Winner of Best Web & New Media at Independent Shorts Awards 2023
Semi-finalist at Blow-up Art House Film Fest Chicago 2023

VIDEO SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS 
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) Emerging Curator’s Grant Video Screening 2024
OXY ARTS Video Screening Series 2024 
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2023 
Slamdance x AGBO Private Industry Screening 2023 
Slamdance x The Chimaera Project: LA Women Make Films 2023 
LA Underground Film Forum 2023 
IFFY PSI (Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti): Underground Picnic #2 2023 
FOCA (Fellows of Contemporary Art) Curators Lab Exhibition Grant: In the depth of the mouth inhabits the light that takes shape 2023
LA Artcore October Group show Alien Race: Envisioning Sites of Our Future Ancestors 2022
UCLA MFA 22 THESIS SHOW: POETIC REALITIES



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