Multimedia Projects
Alice is not here(2025)
​Film by Yuwen Huang
music by Niko YIN
The letter Beethoven wrote in his later years to “Elise (Alice)” slips through a crack in time and veers off its intended path—
it never reaches the woman he imagined,
but instead lands in the hands of Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
The two “Alices” inhabit entirely different worlds:
— One belongs to reality, where aging, forgetting, and temporal disorientation are inevitable;
— The other resides in a realm of fantasy, where logic bends and rules collapse.
This accidental misdelivery becomes the work’s central metaphor:
When memory, narrative, and temporal structure fall out of alignment, how do we locate ourselves as “here”?
And who, then, is the one who is “not here”?
Alice is not here explores a state of existence that drifts between presence and absence—
a form of subjective slippage, continually defocused, displaced,
and rewritten within the folds of time and space.
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You Belong To Me, 16mm film, 03:44, 2025
​Film by Yuwen Huang
Music by Niko Yin
Cast by Katharina Stiel, Bardia Sauerland, Thea Seddig
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A Film about violence against women.
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Selected for NUKLEUS Kiel (a project of the Muthesius Gallery SPCE), open-air cinema at Schlossplatz, Kiel, 2025
Glücksspiel, 02:30, 2025
Film by Yuwen Huang
Music Composed by Niko Yin
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Glücksspiel is an experiment that intertwines games of chance with randomized music. The entire performance is built around a bass drum solo, with the order of segments determined entirely by the throw of dice. At the beginning, the performer rolls a die to decide the initial direction of the piece. Then, the visuals shift into a kind of "frenzy mode," resembling the wild chaos of a video game-exaggerated and intense. After that, six dice are rolled again, creating a new, randomized combination of the previously played sections, as if fate were being infinitely scrambled and rearranged.
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Gambling is like a hallucinogen-irresistibly seductive, drawing one in again and again in pursuit of fleeting pleasure and the thrill of losing control. This uncertainty becomes addictive, amplified by electronic sounds that heighten the sense of disorientation and unreality. The short film's visual style reflects this foggy, uncertain atmosphere: layered, dreamlike scenes filled with misty tree shadows forming tangled paths that seem to lead nowhere.
Each fall of the dice marks a subtle shift in the course of fate.​​​