Dragonfly Eyes tells a poignant love story constructed entirely from public surveillance footage. With no actors or cameramen, the daily recordings captured by thousands of artificial ‘eyes’ are stitched together to constitute a fictional narrative: a young woman named Qing Ting (meaning ‘dragonfly’ in Chinese) leaves behind her life in a Buddhist nunnery to work at an industrial dairy farm, where she falls in love with Ke Fan, a technician. As the fragmented montage unfolds, chance moments of the everyday conjure feelings of ambiguity and anxiety. Blurring the boundaries between public and private, truth and fiction, this film challenges viewers to reflect on the shifting relationship between spectators and the observed in contemporary society.

The post-screening talk with the artist will be conducted in Mandarin, with consecutive interpretation in English.