These videos exist for your viewing pleasure. However, they also harbor a secret.
Each of the video files below is also a digital archive of several Chinese woman who have disappeared in the last few years.
Some disappearances are due to residential detentions, abductions linked to public activism on behalf of industrial workers, women, democracy and public transparency.
Some disappearances are mortal: bodies found drowned in water, last days marked by volatile combinations of sociopolitical exhaustion, mental illness, gender-based violence, and immigrant poverty.
To unpack these archives, you must follow some simple directions.
THE LAND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
2023
CREW CREDITS
Taiwan Production 海人制作
Underwater Director of Cinematography 水下攝影&指導
Yuan Hsu-Hu 袁緒虎
Coordinator 協調
Zheng Yu 鄭妤
Camera Assistant 攝影助理
Chang You-Cheng 張佑誠
Chien Wei-Che 簡偉哲
Actors 演員
Hsieh Tiffany 薛提縈
Lee Ming-Wen 李明文
Lin Ya-Han 林雅涵
Chen Sia 陳韻之
Hong Kong Production
Underwater Cinematography
Jen Liu
Actors 演員
Iris Chung 鍾卓芝
Christel Tam 譚希瑜
Cherri Ng 伍雪瑩
Kath Cheong 張雪瑩
Shienne Shing 盛樂衡
Marcella Tin 田菁菁
Peggy Fung 馮鉞桐
New York Production
Cinematography
Jen Liu (land)
Chelsea Knight (underwater)
Actor 演員
Yitong Liu
Computer Programmer
Soul Choi
Production Assistants
Judy Chu
Tamar Giligashvili
Tianyi Sun
Made possible with the support of Creative Capital, Cornell Tech, and the City of West Hollywood. Many thanks to Micasa Studio, Lovid, Jessica Rich, Jane DeBevoise, Mimi Chun, and Ana Chun.