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Simon Liu

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Simon Liu was raised between Hong Kong and Stoke-On-Trent, UK and now lives in Brooklyn, USA. Liu’s films and 16mm multiple projection performances have been presented at film festivals and institutions internationally including the International Film Festival Rotterdam: Tiger Short Competition, Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths, New York Film Festival: Projections, Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Edinburgh IFF, Hong Kong IFF, M+ Museum, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Parrish Art Museum. CROSSROADS @ SFMoMA, Festival du Nouvéau Cinéma, Hamburg Kurzfilmtage, Light Industry, Sheffield Doc/Fest, EMAF, EXiS, IMAGE FORUM and “Dreamlands: Expanded” with the Whitney Museum of American Art & Microscope Gallery. Liu is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a recipient of the NYSCA / Wave Farm Media Arts Assistance Fund in 2018. His work has been featured in publications including the South China Morning Post, MUBI, Nang Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, and DesistFilm. He is an Adjunct Instructor at the Cooper Union School of Art and a member Negativeland, an artist-run film lab in Brooklyn. He has given lectures and performed as a visiting artist at institutions such as the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Yale University and the Beijing Film Academy. Liu is currently in post-production on his first feature film, Staffordshire Hoard.

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Signal 8

57%

Editor

2020

Devil's Peak

50%

Director

2022

Happy Valley

55%

Director

2021

E-Ticket

40%

Director

2019

Single File

70%

Director

2024

Sneyd Green

60%

Director

2018

Star Ferry

80%

Director

2018

Highview

80%

Director

2017

Refuse Room

Director

2024

Single File

70%

Director

2024

Let's Talk

Director

2023

Hide & Seek

Director of Photography

2022

Hide & Seek

Director

2022

Devil's Peak

50%

Director

2022

Happy Valley

55%

Director

2021

Happy Valley

55%

Editor

2021

Happy Valley

55%

Cinematography

2021

Signal 8

57%

Editor

2020

Signal 8

57%

Director

2020

Signal 8

57%

Director of Photography

2020

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Director

2020

E-Ticket

40%

Director

2019

E-Ticket

40%

Editor

2019

E-Ticket

40%

Director of Photography

2019

Fallen Arches

Director

2018

Fallen Arches

Director of Photography

2018

Fallen Arches

Production Design

2018

Fallen Arches

Editor

2018

Sneyd Green

60%

Director

2018

Star Ferry

80%

Director

2018

Highview

80%

Director

2017

Harbour City

60%

Director

2015

Shuffle Cove

Director

2015

Donkey Riding

70%

Director

2014

Afternoon In

Director

2014

Ditchwork

Director

2012

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