WELCOME TO THE LAND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

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, abducted due to their public activism on behalf of industrial laborers, women, democracy and public transparency.

Some disappearances are biological: bodies found drowned in water, their last days marked by volatile combinations of sociopolitical exhaustion, mental illness, gender-based violence, and immigrant poverty.


To unpack the hidden archives, you must follow some simple directions.