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Festival 2026
The Glass Essays
UK, 2025

Directed by
River Yuhao Cao 曹宇豪
Running time
17 mins

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.


Tickets


27 May 2026, 6:10 PM
Rich Mix 
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.