I. Moments of Awareness

Rebooting, Rerooting / 13min9s/ 2025

Rebooting, Rerooting is a contemplative essay film that bridges the microscopic and the monumental, exploring the cyclical nature of existence through the lens of regenerative farming. Created as an intimate memorial to Lo's late farming mentor, Uncle Ho, the work transforms grief into a meditation on continuity, examining how death nourishes life and how breath—both first and last—connects all living systems.

Drawing on footage captured during Lo's immersive study of regenerative farming practices, the film weaves together observational documentation with poetic narration. Through a narrative that is at once personal and broadly resonant, Lo positions bacteria and soil microorganisms beyond biological agents as elegiac singers—entities that metabolize death into sustenance and carry endings into new beginnings. For the artist,  cultivating adaptive resilience is essential to navigating an increasingly turbulent world.

Sunset on Fingertips / 32min46s/ 2020

At times pointing to the sky, at others tracing a circle, Tang Chao outlines the film’s basic structure through seemingly casual gestures and pine needles swaying in the wind. Within this language of movement, he interweaves  grandeur and minute, shifting between prolonged stillnessand fleeting colors, between incessant chatter and moments of semantic disarray. In this deeply introspective gesture, he stages human presence within a natural setting that gradually draws into a vortex of emotional tension as night falls.  

Long Distance Videographer / 11min/ 2017

II.Of Memory and Return

The Glass Essays/ 16min/ 2025

Unable to sleep, a young man is drawn into the woods by a mysterious sound. He follows it across a river, through forests and shadows, until he finally arrives upon the red curtains of a traveling funeral stage. The mesmerizing mourning performance unfolds in a dreamlike invitation into a sensorial exploration of memories, rituals, and ghosts.

Inspired by the performative aspects of mourning in regional Chinese folk traditions, the artist explores lamentation as a form of regenerative practice. Through this lens, he reconstructs landscapes of southern China in his work while evoking the perspective of the revenant. His interest lies in how mourning, as a mode of translation,  can articulate the fluidity of the subject.

Words Fly Back to the Black Earth / 19min12s/ 2025

A calling inhabits the blank pages, unfolding a secret writing. These traces of unseen inscription seep from a murmuring ground, passing through fragmented voices before taking shape in material presence.  Framed as a dialogue with the artist’s grandmother, the film explores an alternative form of personal writing by Chinese women in political shifts— writing that is at once omitted and abundant. The “blank” itself becomes an image, bearing a search for subjectivity: of transformed landscapes and unheard female narratives. By dismantling conventional linguistic structures, the film opens a space for imagination, reading, and performance, allowing something latent to emerge.

as a bird that briefly perches/ 16min52s/ 2025

as a bird that briefly perches is a sincere and introspective three-part video diary. Through a poetic interplay of moving image and text, the artist departs from her experience as a diasporic subject to reflect delicately on notions of identity, memory, homeland, and community. Taking the geological structure and natural rock formations of Hong Kong as a point of departure, the work situates the relationship between people and land within a context of continual migration and reconstruction. It also weaves together observations and reflections on greenhouse cultivation, family relationships, and the lived experience of a Hong Kong farmer adapting to foreign soil.

The work is presented as a visual diary, reinterpreting the entanglements between agricultural labor, species migration, and individual mobility, exploring the complex meanings of “rooting,” “re-rooting,” and “growth.” Between personal experience and broader histories of migration, it evokes an emotional landscape that is at once intimate and open-ended, while tracing the constantly evolving relationship between land and human life.

I. Moments of Awareness

Lo Lai Lai Natalie was born in Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Art (Fine Arts) and Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Lai Lai is a former travel journalist. She finds her interests in food, farming, fermentation, surveillance, and meditation. She has a farming practice, using photography, video and installation as a means to interact with nature. Her artworks are part of collector Dr Uli Sigg's private collection and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.