Simon Liu

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Also Known As 廖沛毅

Simon Liu

Biography

Simon Liu was raised between Hong Kong and Stoke-On-Trent, UK and now lives in Brooklyn, USA. Liu’s films and 16mm multiple projection performances have been presented at film festivals and institutions internationally including the International Film Festival Rotterdam: Tiger Short Competition, Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths, New York Film Festival: Projections, Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Edinburgh IFF, Hong Kong IFF, M+ Museum, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Parrish Art Museum. CROSSROADS @ SFMoMA, Festival du Nouvéau Cinéma, Hamburg Kurzfilmtage, Light Industry, Sheffield Doc/Fest, EMAF, EXiS, IMAGE FORUM and “Dreamlands: Expanded” with the Whitney Museum of American Art & Microscope Gallery. Liu is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a recipient of the NYSCA / Wave Farm Media Arts Assistance Fund in 2018. His work has been featured in publications including the South China Morning Post, MUBI, Nang Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, and DesistFilm. He is an Adjunct Instructor at the Cooper Union School of Art and a member Negativeland, an artist-run film lab in Brooklyn. He has given lectures and performed as a visiting artist at institutions such as the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Yale University and the Beijing Film Academy. Liu is currently in post-production on his first feature film, Staffordshire Hoard.

Known For

Director

Refuse Room

as Director

2024
Single File

as Director

2023
Let's Talk

as Director

2022
Hide & Seek

as Director

2021
Devil's Peak

as Director

2021
Happy Valley

as Director

2020
Signal 8

as Director

2020
- force -

as Director

2019
E-Ticket

as Director

2018
Star Ferry

as Director

2018
Fallen Arches

as Director

2018
Sneyd Green

as Director

2017
Highview

as Director

2015
Harbour City

as Director

2015
Shuffle Cove

as Director

2014
Donkey Riding

as Director

2014
Afternoon In

as Director

2012
Ditchwork

as Director

2009
Flyer Boy

as Director

Editor

2021
Happy Valley

as Editor

2020
Signal 8

as Editor

2019
E-Ticket

as Editor

2018
Fallen Arches

as Editor

Camera

2022
Hide & Seek

as Director of Photography

2020
Signal 8

as Director of Photography

2019
E-Ticket

as Director of Photography

2018
Fallen Arches

as Director of Photography

Art

2018
Fallen Arches

as Production Design

Crew

2021
Happy Valley

as Cinematography