Documentary, Participatory Installation
Dreams of Blindness
This project explores the dreams of the visually impaired community. Rather than focusing on suffering, it challenges stereotypes about visually impaired individuals, emphasizing that everyone, regardless of physical ability, experiences love, pain, and unique perceptions of the world. By highlight non-visual perception as both a cultural and lived experience, the project seeks to break down misconceptions and foster awareness, the first step toward inclusion.
盲人与梦
Dreams of Blindness (2025)
Medium: VR Documentary
Duration: 13 minutes
Sound: Stereo
Language: Mandarin (with English subtitles)
Filming Location: China
Synopsis:
Using dreams as an entry point, this film focuses on the inner worlds of visually impaired individuals. Through the integration of VR imaging and AIGC technologies, it invites viewers to enter a shared dream space—an immersive journey into the poetic dimensions of darkness.
Awards
(including demo version)
21st Accolade International Competition (Award Winner, Awards of merit (Documentary short and Disability issue)
7th China - ASEAN University Students’ Culture Week (Award Winner, The Best Creative Short)
12nd Goa Short Film Festival (Selected)
10th Sakarya International Short Film Festival (Selected)
5th New York International Films Infest Festival (Selected)
5th American Golden Picture International Film Festival (Selected)
4th International Motion Picture Awards (Selected)
Exhibition
2025
Beijing Fashion Week, Beijing (China)
Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou(China)
Participatory Installation
The Dream Book
The Dream Book is a participatory installation that accompanies the VR film, inviting audiences to share their own dreams. In practice, participants not only draw their dreams but also write reflections on blindness and equality, and even improvise poems.
When viewed as a collective work, the book reveals connections between the dreams portrayed in the documentary and those contributed by the audience, fostering a deeper dialogue about what dreaming means to being human.
Selected Pages from The Dream Book
A glimpse into previous participants’ drawings, writings, and poetic reflections.
Translation (text in the picture):
We are the same in having dreams.
We all close our eyes when we dream.
Invisible imagination may be more beautiful than the visible. Wish you sweet dreams.
Translation (text in the picture):
The door was locked by someone.
She was trapped inside the dorm.
No one answered.
“Please… open the door.”
Translation (text in the picture):
May everyone dream well.
Translation (text in the picture):
SKY, UNIVERSE, HOMETOWN
Translation (text in the picture):
Her hair swayed like ripened rice.
Her clothes held the scent of time.
After my grandmother passed away, I dreamed she became a white bird.