Qiuli Wu

Qiuli Wu received a BFA in Film from Simon Fraser University’s School of Contemporary Arts. She is a filmmaker born and raised in southeast China. In her artistic practice, she utilizes the medium of cinema as a machine to dissect and analyze social structures and muted desires through storytelling and fabulation. Her works focus on the interrelations between individuals and the transformations in their surroundings. She has a strong curiosity towards developing a cinematic language that could invoke a new way of perceiving moving images. Her first official short film, Sunken Cave and a Migrating Bird (2020), has screened in the Vancouver International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and the Future of Film Showcase on platforms such as CBC Gem.