Lin started making video artwork in 2011 and has completed seven short pieces. Being a keen choral singer, she often uses her own voice in the sound tracks which are equally important as the visual images.
Drifting 2011 / 03:57
Using simple transformation of the visual image, and a soundtrack composed and sung by the artist herself, this film is a meditative video poem which explores the mesmerizing quality of gently moving water.
This video was shown in the Holmfirth Arts Festival in June 2011, and in the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in Hawick in October.
Drifting from Lin Li on Vimeo.
Samsara 2011 / 01:38
This video is a visual metaphor of the 'flow of life' (Samsara). The continuous motion of the prayer wheels together with an original soundtrack which includes digitally manipulated chanting in vowels create a moment of meditative intensity.
Samsara was screened at the 15th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA which took place in Novi Sad, Serbia from 16th to 18th December 2011.
Cocooned 2011 / 02:27
By juxtaposing a soundtrack which contrasts the tranquility of the visual images in this video, the artist questions her peaceful life in the wider context of the conflict and suffering in the daily lives of many people around the world.
Cocooned from Lin Li on Vimeo.
So near, so far 2012 / 04:33
The sea can arouse different emotions. It has a mystical quality which is comforting to some people but unsettling to others. This quality, as well as the musicality of waves, is evoked by the original sound track, which consists of a combination of field recording and vocal sounds (humming, whispering and breathing).
So near, so far from Lin Li on Vimeo.
Oh where, tell me where 2011 / 01:57
This work is an interpretation of the folk song The Blue Bells of Scotland, in the contemporary context of Britain's military operations in recent years, also raising the issue of what role Scotland might play in such operations if it became independent. The first line of the lyrics in the song is "Oh where, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone?"
The soundtrack is created from digitally manipulated extracts of a recording of The Blue Bells of Scotland played on the pan flute by Glen Hoban, who has kindly given his permission for the use of his recording.
This video contains photographs downloaded from the UK Ministry of Defence image database under the terms of the Open Government Licence v1.0.
Oh where, tell me where from Lin Li on Vimeo.
Tomorrow 2011 / 06:46
In response to an invitation from the composer Igor Stankovic, Lin Li made this video for his composition Improvement 149 (soundcloud.com/sinaj/improvement-149-1). This video is therefore an interpretation of a piece of music. Please note that the beginning of the soundtrack is very soft.
Tomorrow from Lin Li on Vimeo.
Where words trap the mind 2012 / 07:26
This video is based on a piece of experimental writing of the same title by Chin Li, published in "Gnommero: quickness' (edited by Sarah Tripp) - a collection of responses to one of Italo Calvino's "Six Memos for the Next Millennium".
Where words trap the mind from Lin Li on Vimeo.
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