Before Then

The filmmaker asks her grandmother to read a letter out loud, revealing long held secrets.

The filmmaker attempts to confess a secret that she has carried with her for years. She presents the secret in the form of a letter in English, which she writes out phonetically in Chinese, and asks her grandmother to read it out loud.

Mengzhu Xue is a Chinese director and artist currently studying fine art and film in Germany. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences and the subtle contradictions of everyday life, her art seeks to open a space beyond the limits of language.