Quantised Bits of Light till It Added to a Whole
4k Single channel colour video with stereo sound, 5 minutes 56 seconds, 2024
Exhibitions & screenings:
Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2025, British Council International Touring Programme 2025 - 2026, Millennium Film Workshop (New York) 2025, Reclaim The Frame presents: Reframe and Rejoice (BFI Southbank, London) 2025, Salón ACME No.12 (Mexico City) 2025, New Renaissance Film Festival (Close-Up Cinema, London) 2024, Ruthin International Arts Festival 2024 (Wales), Richard Hoggart Cinema (London) 2024
Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2025 - Official selection, New Renaissance Film Festival 2024 - Official selection & Honourable mention
Desciption:
This work examines cyborg identities and self-representation in digital spaces, embodying themes of politicised care and algorithmic resistance. Critiquing the gender construction in digital technology, it reimagines cyborg bodies, investigating the intersections of technology, gender, and resilience. The disparity between the real and digital worlds' timescales demonstrates the complexities of rendering identity in virtual spaces.
Challenging traditional notions of embodiment, the dialogue navigates the entanglement of virtual and physical realities, while through deconstruction and dematerialisation, cyborg bodies reclaim agency over their narratives. Using glitch aesthetics and fragmented narratives, it reveals hidden traumas, exploring tensions between agency and constraint, vulnerability and resilience in cyberspaces. Tu invites viewers to contemplate the politics of representation and digital embodiment.
Challenging traditional notions of embodiment, the dialogue navigates the entanglement of virtual and physical realities, while through deconstruction and dematerialisation, cyborg bodies reclaim agency over their narratives. Using glitch aesthetics and fragmented narratives, it reveals hidden traumas, exploring tensions between agency and constraint, vulnerability and resilience in cyberspaces. Tu invites viewers to contemplate the politics of representation and digital embodiment.
Text by independent curato Yueh-Ning Lee
Installation view at Salón ACME, Feb 2025
Screening at BFI Southbank, Mar 2025
Credits:
3D Animation GWIL HUGHES, RILEY TU
Camera and Editing RILEY TU
Script Writer NATHANIEL TROST
Music and Dubbing Mixing by RILEY TU
Mastered by RAHEEL KHAN
Voice Over (In order of appearance)
Creator ELLEN KING
Self 1 ELLIE PEARCH
Self 2 ANOUK VERVIERS
Self 3 NIAMH HANNAFORD
Glitch RILEY TU