Refuse Room (2024)

Simon Liu (USA/Hong Kong SAR) is a filmmaker and visual artist born in Hong Kong in 1987. Working in alternative documentary, abstract diary films, multichannel video installation, and 16mm projection performances, he centres his practice on the rapidly evolving psychological and sociopolitical landscapes of his homeland of Hong Kong through material abstraction, speculative history, and subversion of documentary cinema practices. He received a BFA in Film and TV Production from New York University Tisch School of the Arts (2010). His work has screened at festivals, museums, and galleries internationally, including Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Kyiv International Short Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, Media City Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Viennale, Jeonju International Film Festival, and the 2024 Whitney Biennial, winning awards from Hong Kong International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Punto de Vista Festival, and Taiwan International Documentary Festival, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of M+ Museum and The Museum of Modern Art. He is a member of Negativeland, a film laboratory dedicated to the creative use of photochemical motion picture film. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he is an adjunct professor at Cooper Union.