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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