Hu Wei

Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.

A Chinese couple, divorced for ten years, meet again in Paris to arrange the funeral of their only son. In this country that is completely foreign to them, they are forced to live together under the same roof once more. While trying to uncover the reasons that led to their son’s death, they are confronted with what they had always tried to avoid: their past.

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.

A Chinese couple visits the daughter they gave up for adoption 30 years ago.

This film is based on retrospective and imagination, text and mobile images, and is also an attempt to re-materialize movies and film devices (apparatuses). During an excursion to Tehran, artists and authors revisited the cinema "street" burned during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. They used pre-revolutionary Iranian films and cinema venues as lenses for analyzing geopolitics and oil politics. Words, archives, mobile images, film materials, and sounds are interspersed with real and fictitious narrative structures, showing "silent" historical manipulation and the post-revolutionary state of Iranian society. The entanglement between war, desire, and matter points to an artificial doomsday "paradise" -- and also asks the audience from the historical level to which the radical revolution is spreading to the present.

A Chinese couple, divorced for ten years, meet again in Paris to arrange the funeral of their only son. In this country that is completely foreign to them, they are forced to live together under the same roof once more. While trying to uncover the reasons that led to their son’s death, they are confronted with what they had always tried to avoid: their past.

A Chinese couple, divorced for ten years, meet again in Paris to arrange the funeral of their only son. In this country that is completely foreign to them, they are forced to live together under the same roof once more. While trying to uncover the reasons that led to their son’s death, they are confronted with what they had always tried to avoid: their past.

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.

A Chinese couple visits the daughter they gave up for adoption 30 years ago.

A Chinese couple visits the daughter they gave up for adoption 30 years ago.

This film is based on retrospective and imagination, text and mobile images, and is also an attempt to re-materialize movies and film devices (apparatuses). During an excursion to Tehran, artists and authors revisited the cinema "street" burned during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. They used pre-revolutionary Iranian films and cinema venues as lenses for analyzing geopolitics and oil politics. Words, archives, mobile images, film materials, and sounds are interspersed with real and fictitious narrative structures, showing "silent" historical manipulation and the post-revolutionary state of Iranian society. The entanglement between war, desire, and matter points to an artificial doomsday "paradise" -- and also asks the audience from the historical level to which the radical revolution is spreading to the present.

Short film by Hu Wei.

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Short film by Hu Wei.

Short film by Hu Wei and Francois Dey.

Short film by Hu Wei.

In this piece, the artist is interested in the division of a condition of possibilities between labour and sublimity. It examines the reinvigoration of sublime highlighted by modern technology and the invisibility and performativity of labour. This endeavor manifests labour power behind the Real Abstraction - a social construct with real effects that we experience and embody.