The Futora
Synopsis
Inspired by 1980s and 1990s Chinese children's science fiction films like WONDER BOY, the filmmaker reimagines electricity not just as infrastructure, but as a living force - speculating: what if the ghost that once inhabited lightbulbs and circuits is now displaced, scattered across phone screens and the devices of a sleepless global supply chain?
In this film, the ghost transforms from a figure of mystical empowerment into a fragmented existence, diffracted, dispersed, and re-coded.
Assembling fragmented connections through material and time from light accessory factories in southern China, through the dreams and imagination of children living nearby, and the port town of Grays in eastern England. These peripheral spaces appear to host accidental encounters, yet in reality, they serve as vital nodes in the circulation of low-cost global goods - concealing the shadow infrastructures of globalisation.
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2026
Details
- Year
- 2025
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 13 min 5 sec
- Format
- Digital
- Director
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Yuqing Lin
- Producer
- Yuqing Lin
- Executive Producer
- Yuqing Lin
- Editor
- Yuqing Lin
- Sound
- Yew Brown
- Principal cast
- Ximo Fan, Yifei Hu
- Production Assistant
- Ailiao Zhang
Genre
Production Status
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