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.


Text by independent curato 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