19. Coronavirus Diary - Shenzhen
I started a “Coronavirus Diary” on Feb 21 in the hope to document locally this strange time we are going through collectively all over world.
Read More5. I Love You Like the Sun
At one point, even the last faint beams of sunset had vanished, so we needed to take out our torches. The person behind would shed light for the person before. I remembered the moment I stopped and turned around, I saw a mountain covered in streams of light that flowed down the slopes like gleaming water of gold. Above us, there was the Milky Way flowing across the entire sky like a river, as if the universe was reflecting back to us the grandeur of human endeavor. Since that day, I’ve stored that image in the depths of my memories, as if I knew that someday I would have to retrieve from it the missing hints I’d need to carry on.
Read More4. The Storytellers
Making a documentary consists of a series of waiting. We often have shooting days where nothing works as we expect. In documentary, you lose your sense of order of events, as if nothing happens at all through your lens, and all of a sudden, everything happen all at once. And you are never sure whether the nothing that happens or the everything would actually end up being an integral part to your story. So you push the record button, wait around, light a cigarette, take a sip of water, look into the tired eyes of your teammate, and smile with a nod, tacitly informing your teammate that you have not fallen asleep. But to the outsiders, you will look as if you’ve fallen so much in love with that which is in the shot.
Read More3. Departure: Terminal A06
Thinking of it, some of the most intimate moments of my life were actually shared with strangers from all around the world, people who understood nothing about me or my worries. They’ve seen me cry after waving goodbye to parents, they’ve seen me shed big bright tears after saying farewell to a lover; they've shared my sorrows, anonymously.
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