mei liu
artist, filmmaker, performance-maker
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artist, filmmaker, performance-maker
based in Amsterdam
EDUCATION
2024
MA in Artistic Research in and Through Cinema
Netherlands Film Academy
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2019
BFA in Film & TV Production
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
New York, U.S.A
2022
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Film Lab
Filming in the Amazon
2022
Meisner Acting Method Intensive
William Esper Studio
New York, USA
GRANT
2026
3Package Deal (top talent grant)
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
2025
Development support for interdisciplinary project
Amarte Fund
RESIDENCY
2026
Jan van Eyck Academie
Maastricht, the Netherlands
Artist in Residence
2026
Venice Biennale College Blend
Venice, Italy
Workshop Residency
2027
(upcoming) Kinosaki International Arts Center
Kinosaki, Japan
Artist in Residence
2024-2025
Forecast Mentorship for Audacious Minds
with mentor Lieko Shiga
2023
Tamera Healing Biotope Peace Research Center
System Change, SD Forum for Arts
EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOPS
2025
Homesick for Another World: a film unfolding in space
Tokyo Arts and Space | Tokyo, Japan
2025
Homesick for Another World: expanded cinema/multi-media theater performance
- (Feb 24-25) Theater Commons Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan
- (Mar 14-15) Forecast Festival | Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
2024-2025
Homesick for Another World: a lecture performance
- Forecast Forum | Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
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Artistic Research Week | EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Artist Event | Nowhere Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Self-Uncensored | organização, investigação e artes, Lisbon, Portugal
2024
Homesick for Another World: expanded screenplay (7-channel video installation)
- Forecast Forum | Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
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Artistic Research Week | Netherlands Filmacademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2023
ICON (video installation)
Intersection: within the spirit of nature, and where we find ourselves
group exhibition | Jogja, Indonesia
2023
Wu Wei Mudra (video installation)
- 同柔共弱 group exhibition with collaborative artist duos | 前台osf, Guangzhou, China
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2025
Le Bruit Blanc - group exhibition of queer feminist artists from China | Paris, France
2021
Cenote Workshop (co-founder)
Long-term communal project that explores mysticism, performance and art making using improvisation techniques in search of creative freedom under cultural censorship, and reach collective healing.
- 2022 Oracle Manufacture Workshop | TANK Shanghai, Shanghai China
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2021 Covid and After Workshop | Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center, Wuhan China
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2021 Rituals in Rituals of the Future | Himalayas Museum, Shanghai China
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
2024
ICON (writer-director)
West Lake International Documentary Festival
2024
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (writer-director)
WORM Pirate Bay Film Festival
2023
ICON (writer-director)
Expanded Cinema | Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
2022
Parkland of Decay and Fantasy (producer)
New:Vision Competition | CPH:DOX
2021
HAPPY ENDING (writer-director)
International Competition | Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
2020
HAPPY ENDING (writer-director)
Jury Prize Winner | Long Distance Film Festival
2020
HAPPY ENDING (writer-director)
Official Selection | Rhode Island International Film Festival
TEACHING & LECTURING
2024
Homesick for Another World: Lecture Performance
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Global Art Practice, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan;
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Musashino Art University, Japan
2023
Myth Adaptation Filmmaking Workshop
Veritas Academy | Shanghai, China