The FUTORA, 2026
single channel video, colour, 13’05’’
World premiere：CPH:DOX New:Vision Award Competition
connecting traces of hypnagogia, fragmented geography and childhood sci-fi media, through senses of time belonging to translucent dreams, manufactured goods , fantasies and family owned workshops.
The film follows an unidentified ghostly entity that travels through nocturnal shimmer. It is an ‘egregore’, a collective being formed by unconscious memories. The light traveler drifts across fragmented geographies, tracing entangled relationships between time, labour and desire. Inspired by 1980s and 1990s Chinese children’s science fiction media, the film reimagines electricity not just as infrastructure, but as a living force. The images drift through the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city, where unfinished imaginings of the future slip into another world.
Director: Yuqing Lin
Cast: Ximo Fan, Yifei Hu
Cinematography: Yuqing Lin
Edit：Yuqing Lin
Sound Design: Yew Brown
Production Assistant: Aliao Zhang
Colourist: Priory Post
Creative Advisor: Lou Lou Sainsbury
Technical support: Lemar Maunders
