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.

Text by independent curator Yueh-Ning Lee



Installation view at Salón ACME, Feb 2025





Screening at BFI Southbank, Mar 2025


Credits:
Directed and Produced by     RILEY TU
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
©2025 RILEYTU