River Yuhao Cao
曹宇豪
The Glass Essays
River is My Hometown
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River is My Hometown
River is My Hometown
4K, Color, Sound, 8 mins, Sound, 2021, China.
River is My Hometown reveals a perspective of a revenant through a short film (revenant: one that returns after death or a long absence).
Where to return? Artist River Cao glimpsed the potential answer to this question in Rilke’s poem “in my invisible landscape, the most beautiful, you make me more angel-known, those are invisible.” – Duino Elegies (1923). As the hum of mourning began to arise, a traditional funeral ceremony “Plead for Water” from his hometown helps to return him as a revenant to a homeland that transcends the geographic concept, it’s a place more private and intimate, where the emotion of grief has been reconsidered since then.
River is My Hometown (2021), Trailer
River is My Hometown (2021), River Yuhao Cao, Film Still
River is My Hometown (2021), River Yuhao Cao, Film Still
River is My Hometown (2021), River Yuhao Cao, Film Still
Showcase of River is My Hometown:
2025 APPARITIONS 2025: Interconnected Worlds & Human Movement, Central Saint Martins, London,UK
2025 SAN DIAN SHUI, Tofu Collective, Copenhagen, Denmark
2024 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany
2024 QEER EAST: I WILL HAUNT YOU FOREVER: Queer Ghosts Across Time, Museum of the Home, London, UK
2022 REMEMBERING PLACE, ESEA Contemporary, Manchester, UK
2022 QUEER DIRECT, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2021 LONDON GRADS NOW.21, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2021 SELECTED 11 Screening tour, Nottingham Contemporary / Spike Island / Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre / Video Club / Film London, UK