Interdisciplinary artist Linda Chiu-han Lai works at the intersection of experimental moving images, the history of everyday life, and media archaeology. Drawing from speculative theories, she prefers an anthropological stance in her investigation of art and cinema, often interrogating narrative construction through historiographic pieces.

10957 Moons and 30 Elliptical Years is an eight-part collage of events, objects, thoughts, and sensations drawn from Lai’s personal moving image archive, assembled between 1991 and 2021. Describing herself as a modern-day ‘flâneuse’, Lai interweaves diaristic video fragments, with found footage from film and television, as well as exhibition and performance documentation.

For Lai, these images are all slices of the world in motion—‘a series of escapes and entrances that bear the traces of change’—so much so that the chapters increasingly grow into introspective fragments that embody the threshold between fluctuating states of being. Occasionally, the work pays tribute to nature and its interlocking, co-evolving systems, all driven by continual feedback and interactions. Both personal and political, this film shifts between a nostalgic meditation on the past and a critical analysis of the present.

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Linda Chiu-han Lai (b. 1957, Hong Kong) is a transdisciplinary artist, academic, and curator of contemporary media arts. Her experimental video works explore Hong Kong urbanism and cultural identity and are grounded in a feminist sensibility that integrates critical theory, film theory, and visual and auto-ethnography. Linda is founder of the new media art group Writing Machine Collective and the artist-run initiative The Floating Projects. Her works have been exhibited at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, and Women Make Waves (Taipei).