Made my personal website.
Wrote whatever came to mind.
Seems nice to me.
May 2025
I feel a constant gaze inside my camera.
Turned the camera on myself, tried to have a conversation with the eye behind it.
I’m getting crazy, or artsy.
February 27, 2025
Filmed a kid’s dream in Budapest.
First time making a non-observational documentary. Didn’t know documentary could be so free and playful.
My journalism professor would hate this.
3 September, 2024
Wrote an email to a student activist:
I once tried to stand for the truth until it became unbearable and I left.
How do you keep going?
May 27, 2024
Fled to Europe to study documentary directing.
Filmed a group of Cape Verdean squatters in Lisbon. How can they live like there’s no tomorrow?
Learned some Creole, and forgot it.
15 December, 2023
Worked alone on an independent feature documentary.
The protagonist told me the film was her last and only hope.
I’m scared. Of filming, and of not filming.
3 April, 2023
Third year of lockdown. I could do nothing but write. Published two in-depth news articles.
Did something I don’t dare to put here.
Late, 2022
Locked down in my apartment for 22 days. Couldn’t film.
Wrote about a female truck driver on her 4000 km journey into locked-down Shanghai, and her 7 days lockdown inside the truck cab.
My own suffering is nothing compared to hers.
May 14, 2022
Pandemic lockdown. Hard to travel to film. Started freelancing for international media, directing remotely over Zoom.
The first video for VICE got 4.5 million views on YouTube.
Yay.
3 March, 2021
Started my first feature documentary.
Had no idea how to make it, just filmed everything.
September 13, 2020
Made a commercial for the first time. Enjoyed the suffering.
January 9, 2020
Shot in Golden Eggs Village.
Held a lucky draw. Villagers smashed golden eggs for the first time, though they’d spent their whole lives making them.
Thought it was a cliché idea, but everyone was happy.
September 3, 2019
This man couldn’t afford a cello, so he made one from a steel pot. I filmed him.
Fell in love with village stories. Traveled across China to film in 12 villages.
May 3, 2019
Filmed girl idols returning home to take college exams after three years on stage. They were torn between two different lives.
Felt a deep connection. Tried creative filmmaking for the first time. People loved it. Happy.
August 19, 2018
Found a job as a video journalist.
Made my first documentary. Portraits of people who treated sex dolls as family, and their relationships with real family members. Saw that people can be very different, yet very similar.
December 12, 2017
Left my small hometown for Beijing to study journalism.
Started to see that many things I believed growing up were not what they seemed.
September 1, 2013