Jen Liu Trailers
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Most Popular Jen Liu Trailers
Total trailers found: 16
The Land at the Bottom of the Sea Trailer (2023)
16 December 2023
Firsthand accounts of industrial workers and worker poetry are embedded within other nonfiction sources, woven into a melancholic elegy alongside a visual narrative depicting failed social encounters with mermaids.
Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Electropore Trailer (2021)
30 September 2021
Four womxn form a labor circuit, generating electricity for cheap gadgets: Their biopower powers the infinitely disposable.
The Pink Detachment Trailer (2015)
04 November 2015
The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution.
The Machinist's Lament Trailer (2014)
31 December 2014
"In factories, everyone has their place. Western industrial production is a site of magical thinking: an old history that will never return, an idealized construction that never really was.
The Red Detachment of Women Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
The Red Detachment of Women is a celebration of two worlds that almost exist. The first is a tropical paradise inhabited by female soldiers, as imagined in Madame Mao’s The Red Detachment of Women (ballet film: 1970).
I Am Cloud Trailer (2024)
17 September 2024
Referencing the Cloud—a cyber-infrastructure that stores our memories and data through seemingly remote servers that are in fact powered by an unseen network of humans—the exhibition featured recent and new videos, paintings, and mixed-media animatronics, speculating on the myth of virtualized labor through a postcolonial feminist lens.
Safety First (Bad, Don't Touch, Mercy!) Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
In split-screen. a factory laborer is at work, one representing good, the other, bad. Safety conditions are violated by the bad worker - and then dream sequences bring to life nightmarish Romanian factory safety posters from the 1970s.
BBBitches! Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
BBBitches! is constructed of stop-motion, 3D animation, and found footage set to a soundtrack of 'estranged' audio, as a transmission from a world that has evolved beyond our understanding.
The Sleepless Cell Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
This animation accompanies Part 1 of Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Transfection Ring (Industrial Poisoning Labor Rights).
New Dawn Fades Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
Two videos are projected on two walls of the small viewing space. The videos present two classes from a reorganized future society—the Crunch Division and the Peace Division.
The Shape of Things to Come Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
The protagonist sits at a vanity table in an empty room, with her back to us. A computer generated voice talks about the circle, square, triangle, line, and dot.
Bottoms (OnO) Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
In Bottoms (OnO), a series of butts with faces painted on them march in place. A tribute to Yoko Ono's Bottoms, it imagines a society in which equals walk towards a future of their own making.
Six Colorful Tales from the Emotional Spectrum (Women) Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
CAUGHT RED HANDED / THINKING ORANGE / CATATONIC YELLOW / GREEN HORN / FEELING BLUE / APOPLECTIC VIOLET: DEATH WALKS IN HIGH HEELS!
Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Gold Loop Trailer (2021)
12 May 2021
Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Gold Loop reflects on the disappearance of labor activists in China, the resulting possibilities of political resistance, and e-waste (old computers, cell phones, and other domestic electronics).
Ghost__World: Marshland Trailer (2024)
13 April 2024
Sound description: lapping water, dunking frogs in water, metal parts fitted together
