Shi Yun Teo

蝴蝶山;NOW, THEN

2023

A documentary-fiction film installation showing a contemporary take on the Wuxia* genre and Chinese spirit mediums in Singapore. The film shows a female protagonist on a journey to seek revenge, for her deceased loved one. Using a mix of my own documentation and found footage from cinema, the film re-contextualises the past and creates a place of presence. The narrative blurs the lines between truth and fiction, creating an uncertain...

a tale of ula-nara

Ongoing

Set in a fictional xianxia world where humans known as "cultivators" specialize in spiritual, physical, and paranormal pursuits to achieve transcendence from mortality. A thousand years ago, Ula Hua Shui was a princess in the Ula clan in the centre who ascends to godhood at eighteen after practising martial arts and cultivation since she was three. She...

spaces as traces

Ongoing

an exploration between architectural, technological and spiritual mediums. The film will question how and which specific spaces are required for these mediums to function: an interface, temples and homes. A series of photographs created in the present, provides the tour of the community within the government housing, also called HDBs in Singapore. They document various events being held in a large, modernist building with spacious interiors of clean, rectangular design. An opportunity...

a memory plate

2022

“I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents, grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family, which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to . . . complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous...

a memory plate

2022

Several pages are screen printed experimentally by hand Images are example copies, each copy is different and unique. Each book comes with an original copy of silk screen printing on film. ...

cosmic tapestry

2021

Believing in the existence of a reality beyond the material world, and in this film, I want to explore the relationship of the space, between us and everyone, the energy that we share. All energy we have is only borrowed and one day we have to return it. ...

inkblots

2021

千枝一本

2020

a reflection after a trip to my father's ancestral home in Xiamen, China.