Where the Sea Stands Still — Basic Grid copy 1

Where the Sea Stands Still | 大海停止之處

Where the Sea Stands Still | 大海停止之處

Feature film work-in-progress
16mm transferred to digital, 2027

Funded by
CalArts REEF Residency
LACE Lightning Fund
Visual Studies Workshop Project Residency

From the perspective of Soon Din, a Chinese infant who died at Angel Island Immigration Station in 1924, Where the Sea Stands Still follows his wandering spirit on a tactile, posthumous voyage of homecoming. Traversing continents and eras, the film enters a world inhabited by the roaming ghosts of Chinese immigrants, revisiting histories of death and displacement and tracing how migration, diaspora, racism, and language intertwine to shape identity and the meaning of home.

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