Private Project

Tentacle eyes

Tentacle Eye is a fictional spell-film,In the telling of a story about an underground kingdom, a pair of ambiguously related lovers also seem to be traveling back through a tunnel to their own past - to their memories of land and some dreamlike fantasy and fragments.
The perspective of the film moves between the monologue of ghosts, and different non-human perspectives. Interspersed with the text about a princess who loses her sight in an underground world, this recitation combines the Wu and haunted literature of ChuCi,Liao zhai. Rewriting the land bound thinking and heroic narrative implicit in these stories into an anti-origin, fragmented narrative that interpenetrates and intermingles with the non-human.



This work is about the feeling of hiding, and being suspended, explores the entanglement with non-human beings, the internal experiences of queer bodies, and how hauntology are interrelated with the experience of diaspora.

  • Yuqing Lin
    Director
  • Wenxin Huang
    Key Cast
  • Kerrica Kendall
    Key Cast
  • Ziyun Huang
    Key Cast
  • Yew Brown
    Music and Sound design
  • Xinyu Xu
    Special Thanks
  • Hang Li
    Special Thanks
  • Ziyu Wang
    Special Thanks
  • liming Lin
    Special Thanks
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    触手眼
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 24, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China, United Kingdom
  • Language:
    Chinese, English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Lux moving image centre
    London
    United Kingdom
    December 17, 2023
  • B3 Film Festival
    Frankfurt
    Germany
    October 21, 2023
  • Goldsmith Contemporary Art center
    London
    United Kingdom
    May 27, 2023
  • The Wrong biennale
    Online
    August 16, 2023
Director Biography - Yuqing Lin

Yuqing Lin(she/they, b1997) is a filmmaker, artist,researcher . She uses various media for her creations, including film, installation, printing, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Holds an MFA in Sculpture from Royal collage of Art, and a BFA from Chinese Academy of Arts . Simultaneously, she has developed the collective project “if splash as your whistle” which is a community explores queer and diaspora journey through moving images and artist films . Her work has been screened and exhibited at Lux Moving Image Centre ( 2023, London)B3 Biennale Film festival(2023, Frankfurt),Goldsmith CCA(2023,London),Bermondsey Project Space(2023,London),, The Wrong Biennale(2023,online), Latitude Gallery(2021,New York) etc.

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