Unable to sleep, a young man is lured into the woods by a mysterious sound. He follows it across a river, through forest and shadows, until he finally comes upon the red curtains of a travelling funeral performance stage. The mesmerising mourning recital that unfolds is a dreamlike invitation into a sensorial exploration of memories, rituals, and ghosts.
Festival 2026
The Glass Essays
UK, 2025
Directed by
River Yuhao Cao 曹宇豪
River Yuhao Cao 曹宇豪
Running time
17 mins
17 mins
Tickets
27 May 2026, 6:10 PM
Rich Mix
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River Yuhao Cao 曹宇豪
River Yuhao Cao 曹宇豪 (b. 1997, China) is an artist filmmaker and performance artist based in London. Inspired by the performative aspects of mourning in regional Chinese folk traditions, he explores it as a regenerative practice, reconstructing landscapes from his early memories of Southern China.