Quantised Bits of Light till It Added to a Whole
Single channel colour 4k video with stereo sound, 5 minutes 56 seconds, 2024
Exhibitions & screenings:
Out of Code (Made in Taiwan Young Artist Discovery 2025, Art Taipei) 2025, Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2025, British Council International Touring Programme 2025 - 2026, Between a Frame and a Soft Place (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
Awards:
Made in Taiwan Young Artist Discovery 2025 - Finalist (Organised by Ministry of Culture), Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2025 - Official selection, New Renaissance Film Festival 2024 - Best animation short: Official selection & Honourable mention
Desciption:
Building on the theme of subjectivity introduced in Prelude, this work places digital bodies within a more complex narrative landscape. Grounded in Glitch Feminism, Sick Woman Theory and A Cyborg Manifesto, this work reflects on identity and self-representation in digital space, centring themes of politicised care and resistance to algorithmic control. It critiques the gendered construction of technology, reimagining digital bodies while examining the intersections of technology, gender, and resilience. The temporal disjunction between physical and virtual worlds demonstrates the complexity of constructing identity within digital environments, where embodiment is always hybrid and in flux.p
The work employs strategies of deconstruction and dematerialisation through which cyborg bodies reclaim agency over their narratives. Glitch aesthetics and fragmented storytelling are used to surface hidden traumas and articulate the tensions between agency and constraint, vulnerability and resilience in cyberspace. In dialogue with the creator, Tu invites viewers to reflect on the politics of representation and digital embodiment.
The work employs strategies of deconstruction and dematerialisation through which cyborg bodies reclaim agency over their narratives. Glitch aesthetics and fragmented storytelling are used to surface hidden traumas and articulate the tensions between agency and constraint, vulnerability and resilience in cyberspace. In dialogue with the creator, Tu invites viewers to reflect on the politics of representation and digital embodiment.
Text by independent curator 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