Dancing across boundaries in both content and form, S/Z Rye Green Berry explores cross-dressing in various traditional Asian operas while using the materiality of film to demonstrate how cinema reshapes memory and perception over time.
This enchanting work from Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, defies notions of authenticity and rigidity, highlighting the fluid, ever-changing nature of identity and the transformative potential of the moving image.
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Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
Director
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu (she/her)
Director
Taiwan / Los Angeles (USA)
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work is grounded in experimental literature, the conceptual avant-garde and philosophy.
Liu’s works are concerned with materiality in different contexts and eras, as well as its transformation, symbolism, decay and emotional resonance. For Liu materiality includes both living and inanimate matter. Through film, poetry, painting, sculpture and other media, she reflects the light and darkness of the world she lives in.
Her films have been shown at international film festivals and museums, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Helsinki Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Image Forum Festival, Japan, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, The Museum of Kyoto, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, M+ Museum in Hong Kong, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, among others.
Part of Between Breath & Lens: A curation of international short films
HSEIH I-Hsuan and Emily Shin-Jie Lee bring their borderless curatorial voice to Dance Umbrella’s 2025 digital programme, with a particular focus on artists and filmmakers from Taiwan

2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalAi Ozaki Spinning
A poetic visual diary tracing memory, migration and transformation through shifting seasons

2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalYin-Ju Chen Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, There is a Garden. I Will Meet You There
A journey through myth & memory, exploring spiritual transformation on a cosmic scale