PAN Lu is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests coalesce around the topic of cultural and cross-cultural analysis of various textual forms including film, visual culture and art, architecture, war memory in modern and contemporary Greater China and East Asia. She was one of the curators of Kuandu Biennale, Taipei, 2018.
Her previous films include Many Undulating Things (2019), Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (2017), Traces of an Invisible City: Three Notes on Hong Kong (2016).
Yu Araki (b.1985, Yamagata City) received his BFA in Sculpture from Washington University, St. Louis, in 2007, and completed his MA Film and New Media Studies from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010. In 2013, he was selected to participate in the Tacita Dean Workshop hosted by Fundación Botín in Santander, Spain. Recent exhibitions include Pola Museum of Art, Shiseido Gallery, the National Museum of Art Osaka, MUJIN-TO Production, Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona, Dallas Contemporary, and Okayama Art Summit. His films have screened at festivals including BFI London Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, where he won the Ammodo Tiger Short Film Award in 2018.
His filmography includes: Tempo (2022), Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside/Out Asia (co-dir., 2021), HONEYMOON (2021), Fuel (2020), Mountain Plain Mountain (co-dir., 2018), Wrong Revision (2018), Bivalvia: Act I (2017), Road Movie (2014), Angelo Lives (2014), 971 Horses + 4 Zebras (2007)