Float Down the Stream
4'48'' | HD, sound | 2020
The film begins with the artist's own walk through the streets of Katendrecht in Rotterdam
during the pandemic, wandering between the scenes of port, water, the history of Dutch
Chinese immigrants and global trade logistics with an ghostly perspective. In the film, the artist
juxtaposing the landscapes of a nameless port along the Yangtze River in his hometown and the
port of Rotterdam, which this two places are linked to the starting and ending ports of the China’s
“Belt and Road Initiative” respectively. The narrative seems to be a metaphor for 'mobility' in the
post-epidemic era, with the relentless global flow of capital, technology and viruses on the one
hand, and the fate of individuals and the 'past' suspended and forgotten in the context of mobility
on the other.