Hongrui Liu
Onwards
2019
4K Video

The film uses dreams, past memories and current struggles to tell a story about my current life in London. Narrative is untraditional, things can be out of order, memories overlapping with dream and reality, where obscure things could happen. Experimenting a lot on the visual framing and construction of spaces around my character, not only the construction of physical places, also emotional, shown with sound and imagery. To represent the true state of events and emotions. Events were extracted and altered from my personal life.
Experimenting with the existentialist theories of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger. A "thing" is used as a vessel here instead of using people. It is a visual dialogue of the vessel making choices and existing among society. Focusing on representing ideas of fluidity and viscosity of the vessels journey. Super 8 film is used with modern digital footage to experiment with creating a montage which shows the dualities of light, shadow and colour in video works. Video is mostly shot in handheld fashion, relating to the directness of lenses as extension of an individuals perspective.
A Thing
2020
Super 8 film
4K Video
Duration
8 min
Duration
Medium
Medium
15 min
198 Now

Video on Panasonic Quintrix TV
Video piece which was part of a multi-media installation which was meant to reflect on current day totalitarianism and surveillance. and ideas extracted from Aldous Huxley's 1984. The video consists of recorded footage of unaware people walking in my school. At times also captured the reaction once people found out there was a camera. The audio consists of an interview on Huxley by Mike Wallace and altered sounds on the themes of surveillance.The lenses is shown as a surveillance tool here.
Installation
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Medium
Duration
9 min
2017
Scenery 1
2019
Medium
4K Video

Duration
13 min
Video created to accompany a sound piece. Blend of peace and chaos. The shadows of a hand swirling and in motion is the original imagery. It was then altered and abstracted with colours and the overlapping of pixellations The audience creates a own sense of what the scenery is accompanied by the sound. The ocean of pixels evolves with the sound.
Video-Noise piece. footage of Home is distorted into pixels. Jagged chords combined with spoken words and machine language creates a chaotic hearing experience. de-stabilising the sounding environment
Waterspin

2021

Super 8 Film footage

Duration: 9:26