By frag_editorial Filmed during the 2024 Creative Practice Colloquium. I deliberately arranged the camera work and editing to be chaotic and out of sync with the music, echoing the colloquium’s theme of “rebellious”. Filmed by Sony a 7 III, edited on Premier Pro.
About the maker
Qinran (Leo) Wang is a PhD candidate studying at the University of Birmingham. He is dedicated to researching on refugee, migrant and human right issues using innovative and practical audio-visual methodologies. His PhD thesis aims to deconstruct the “Humanitarian gaze”, a silencing function commonly existing in current refugee documentaries, by an experimental audio-visual work. His research and video essays have been presented in different conferences, and the video essay “the humanitarian gaze in refugee documentaries” won the Honourable mention in the videographic criticism genre at the BAFTSS 2025 annual conference .