Film / Motion / Design

Giving stories
a form you can see.

Still from A Leaf's Sea Road: tea terraces under cloud on a hillside — A Leaf’s Sea Road 00:11

Studying history education. Working in film editing, motion graphics and digital drawing. Drawn to what time takes away, and to the ways it can still be told.

Guangzhou · 2026

Selected Works

A Leaf’s Sea Road

一片叶子的海路

Historical Film
2026 · 119″ · Bilingual

Still from A Leaf's Sea Road: a white porcelain tea bowl against a mottled wall

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A tea leaf leaves the Thirteen Factories in Guangzhou, crosses the sea, and arrives in London. In a hundred and nineteen seconds, it never says a word.

The project page collects six edit versions: from a ninety-five-second rough cut to the final hundred and nineteen second score, the nine seconds given to a new opening, the ten given to a new ending, and the old timeline pushed back to make room.

Open project

Underwater Archives

深海捞船记 · 南海 1 号

Documentary · Science Communication
2026 · Three episodes

Still from Underwater Archives: rows of porcelain in a desalination tank, subtitled 'the final count is 180,000 pieces'

Episode 3 · 73″

A ship that lay on the seabed for eight hundred years, and the people who lifted it. Three short documentaries on how underwater archaeology brings a former life back, one object at a time.

EP.01 Discovery — the deck crew, and the first look below Series
EP.02 Lifting — a steel caisson and beams, carrying the hull out intact Series
EP.03 Into the museum — 180,000 pieces in the Crystal Palace 73″

Three episodes completed. Episode 03 featured here.

Open project

Video Edits

剪辑作品

Video Editing
2026 · Game / Fiction

Still from Clementine: five silhouettes backlit in blue

Clementine21″

Still from Cao Zhi: game character art on a warm yellow ground

Cao Zhi37″

Still from Jiang Jin Jiu: a red sun and cavalry on white ink ground

Jiang Jin Jiu67″

Short edits drawn from games and fiction. Rhythm and feeling come before complete narrative; most run between twenty seconds and a minute and a half.

One Sword, Ten Thousand Miles of Cold LightGame · 68″
Shen Zhuo · If the Soul Were Exposed to LightFiction · 50″

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About

I’m Cynthia. I study history education and make films.

What I care about when making something is whether it gets said clearly, not whether it looks busy enough. Slow pacing, empty space, and the details you only find on the second look.

Three things on my desk right now: a two-minute film tracing one leaf halfway around the world, the last of a three-episode documentary series on the Nanhai No. 1 wreck, and a poster series still unfinished.

Cynthia

Based: Guangzhou
Practice: Film · Motion · Design
Tools: Editing · Frame animation · Digital drawing
Languages: 中文 / English

Contact

A project in mind, a film to make together,
or just something to say — all welcome.

csyaa183193@gmail.com

Email is the most direct way to reach me.
No phone number or home address is published here.