Siru Wen
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Biography
Siru Wen is a Chinese-born artist based in Los Angeles, whose practice intersects between installation, film, and photography. She meditates on the balance of opposing forces, meanings, and sentiments that originate from and flow between the bodies/interior and nature/exterior. During the process, Siru limits the use of words/language. Instead, allowing honest responses to form instinctively with the use of senses, shapes, lines, movement, silence, and disturbance.
Known For
It's New York City 1972 and Cuban immigrant Gloria Cienfuegos's life and New Year's Eve party are upended when her daughter Viv announces that she's being sworn in that week as an American citizen, creating a showdown between them.
72
Sining brings his American boyfriend, Patrick, back to China when he goes to visit his family. Everyone's attitude towards Patrick changes once Sining inadvertently comes out, except for his 7-year-old nephew’s, Naonao.
Foreign Uncle
A dreamlike, fantastical drift around a fractured identity, with dazzling visual inventions. Like a diary that visually conveys a state of being between two worlds.
It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave
A sexually frustrated half-Asian woman and an Asian woman suffering from existential dread, almost develop a romantic relationship at first encounter on a winter road trip.
To Where the Wind Goes
"Live, Dwell, Stay" discloses an old Chinese couple's uncanny yet familiar mundaneness under their roof, where dwells silence, routines, aging bodies, isolation, dependency, and the accustomed, erratic, and repeated acts of violence.
Live, Dwell, Stay
What begins as a documentary about a New York acting class collapses when the students and teacher revolt against the film, forcing the filmmaker into a reckoning with truth and power in an age when reality itself feels like a performance.
The Whole World Is a Lie
A Vietnamese-American household receives a surprise visit from a long-lost patriarch after he fails at a get-rich-quick scheme.
Hiếu
Through an intimate journey involving the filmmaker and her aunt, we see what remains and what is transformed with the passing of time.