THE ROOM IT LEAKS

2023
11’09’’

Sound design by xiaoyu1002

Artists’film and moving image installation

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Part of Goldsmiths MFA FINE ART degree show 2023

Selected by London Short Film festival
and Queer East Fesitval 2024

Composed of hazy landscapes, fragmented sound effects, and the interplay of light and texture, this room simultaneously alludes to a sanctuary and an emotional complex, encompassing Xinyu 's practices and growth stories.

Xinyu summons her childhood self amidst mountains and waters, tragically meeting her demise at the hands of suffocating repression and anger within domestic. Entrapped within a water-walking ball, her body eventually dissolves into the river, becoming an integral part of the water cycle, transmogrifying into raindrops from the past that descend upon the present, leaking through the crevices of the ceiling. This unresolved witchery hints at such a room's intimate yet unsettling nature as an ancient ghost and a utopia of the present, where love and discipline intertwine.

- excerpt of exhibition text writtern by
Chongwei Dang

Reviews:

featured in“Daydream House” written by Cindy Ziyun Huang for London Short Film Festival. Published on LSFF official website

featured in “Building community through creativity, Queer East Film Festival comes of age” written by Cici Peng, published on Little White Lies