Halfway Seen, Halfway Home 半窥半归
2025
Multichannel moving image
Dimensions variable
Twenty-two years after moving to Australia, I traveled back to China, hoping to uncover the part of me that remains Chinese. I filmed things that were old and others that seemed new, until I found myself forgetting why I was filming in the first place.
Halfway Seen, Halfway Home (半窥半归) is an autoethnographic film exploring my Chinese-Australian hybrid identity—a self shaped by migration, memory, and an ongoing negotiation between two worlds. Filmed in the place I once belonged (China) and produced in the land I now call home (Australia), this work confronts the liminality and incompleteness of my first-generation immigrant experience, where home(s) is both familiar and foreign, ever-present yet always just beyond reach.
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