SCREENING | You are Shooting (Watching) What You Care

About the event

The Liu Shiming Art Foundation’s first international open call, Everyday Heritage: Cultural Memory in Motion, began with a simple question: what are cameras paying attention to, and how are artists shaping that attention?

Across this two-day program, that intention is visible in the choice of medium and method—16mm grain, handheld camera work, archival collage—so that “why I care” is built into framing, rhythm, and duration. Here, film is not only documentation or narrative, but also a way of directing attention and reorganizing experience.

Under the single thread You are Shooting (Watching) What You Care, the works speak to artists and audiences at once. Some films bring debates of reparations and community memory back to the street; others give time and space to invisible labor, pandemic rituals, or questions of resource and decolonization. Everyday life, plants, family, and even slips of paper become testimony.

Spanning short narrative, documentary, collage, and media art, the selected films run from five to fifty minutes and travel from the U.S. West Coast to Western Sahara, and to the port cities of Shanghai, Keelung, Taipei, and Taoyuan. We invite you to recognize the moment you care about, and let it carry you into conversation beyond the screen.

Schedule

Day 1 – Saturday, September 273:00–5:00 PM (Screenings ~1h45m + 30m Q&A)

• Marker, Scanner, and Receipts — Ho Bin Kim (5 min)

• My Water Body — Maliyamungu Gift Muhande (20 min)

• Too Much Like Right — Auttrianna Ward (9 min)

• HANGTIME — Chester Toye (11 min)

• Everybody Has a Right to Survive — Chelsea Odufu (7 min)

• Heritage Architecture — Lily Jue Sheng (9 min)

Q&A with Auttrianna Ward & Chelsea OdufuModerated by Emann Odufu

Day 2 – Sunday, September 282:00–5:00 PM (Screenings ~2h10m + 30m Q&A)

• Marker, Scanner, and Receipts — Ho Bin Kim (8 min)

• The Voice of Bamboo — David Zheng (15 min)

• DESERT PHOSfate — Mohamed Sleiman Labat (57 min)

• Heading South — Yuan Yuan (13 min)

• Two Days Before Tomorrow — Pei Wang (15 min)

• a place in the sun — DaeQuan Collier (16 min)

Q&A with Pei Wang & DaeQuan CollierModerated by Huilin Chen

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Participating Artists & Works (A–Z)

• DaeQuan Alexander Collier — a place in the sun (2024, USA)

• Ho Bin Kim — Marker, Scanner, and Receipts (2024, South Korea)

• Mohamed Sleiman Labat — DESERT PHOSfate (2023, Western Sahara/Finland)

• Maliyamungu Gift Muhande — My Water Body (2022, USA/DR Congo)

• Chelsea Odufu — Everybody Has a Right to Survive (2024, USA)

• Lily Jue Sheng — Heritage Architecture (2024, USA)

• Chester Toye — HANGTIME (2023, USA)

• Pei Wang — Two Days Before Tomorrow (2024, China/USA)

• Auttrianna Ward — Too Much Like Right (2023, USA)

• Yuan Yuan — Heading South (2023, China/USA)

• David (Mingyuan) Zheng — The Voice of Bamboo (2024, USA/China)

Program Curator: Chirui Cheng

Selection Panel: Chirui Cheng, Huilin Chen, Emann Odufu

Guest Filmmakers for Q&A: Auttrianna Ward, Chelsea Odufu, Pei Wang, DaeQuan Collier

Moderators: Emann Odufu, Huilin Chen