"Time is a loop", I wish ~ 03:28 | Yue Hua | 2022 | USA

From filmmaker Yue Hua comes the 16mm film, "Time is a loop", I wish—a tender rumination on time and loss. This sweetly evocative personal piece pairs nostalgic-feeling film footage of toys, wobbly cradle Balance Balls, and light and shadow, with Hua’s poetic reflections presented as hand-drawn text on screen. Hua shot the 16mm footage intuitively (not to or for a script), wrote the text separately, then put them together in post-production creating an evocative capaciousness further enchanted by an airy score. “When I was little, time was slow and I thought I could catch time,” Hua tells us, ”Now, I made a wish.” Embedded in that wish is gentle reckoning and liberation through which she offers a soothing, cinematic, beguiling respite.

About the Artist

Yue Hua/华越 is a passionate and versatile artist and filmmaker, who focuses on visual storytelling and inter-media artwork. She makes short films, narrative films, paintings, and inter-media artwork. Born and raised in China, she possessed a strong interest in art at a very young age. She studied painting and entered the China Academy of Art for her BFA to study film and advertisement. Her painting work and film work were in several exhibitions during that time. In 2021, Yue came to the United States to pursue her dream to become an artist and filmmaker and to achieve an MFA degree at Emerson College. Passion and love are the main resources from which she gains inspiration.