# LingYan

> writer · director · developer


## Posts

- [One Long Prompt (Essay Film, 14 min, 2026)](https://doulingyan.com/one-long-prompt/): One Long Prompt is a short experimental essay film that explores authorship, artificial intelligence, and personal family archives. Built around a first-person monologue, the film documents a process of working with different AI systems, to test storytelling boundaries and changes.
- [Rare Aesthetics (Art&Tech, 2026)](https://doulingyan.com/rare-aesthetics/): @lingbelinging on Instagram, @idontneednocats on TikTok Through AI-generated imagery and video inspired by lost media, regional television archives, commercial advertising, and collective nostalgia, these accounts construct fictional social worlds that feel familiar yet never truly existed. #chinamaxxing #chinesefinancebrosinthe90s
- [Little Dead Things (Documentary, 15 min, Sept 2025)](https://doulingyan.com/little-dead-things-documentary-15-min-sept-2025/): Little Dead Things is a documentary shot on MiniDV during LingYan’s return to China. Preserving a home-video aesthetic, the film looks at the relationship between siblings, their shared passion for art-making, and the filmmaker’s exploration of abandoned spaces in a declining city, capturing the textures of a peculiar moment in time and urban context.
- [Aura Efflux (Art&Tech, July 2025)](https://doulingyan.com/aura-efflux-arttech-july-2025/): Aura Efflux is an Art&Tech project that transforms human movement and sound into immersive, interactive visuals, enabling studios and events to integrate performance, space, and audience engagement into a unified experience. In August 2025, LingYan partnered with FlowMotion Dance Studio for a live exhibit, turning the studio into an interactive canvas where dancers’ movements generated […]
- [Headlamps, Headlamps, Headlamps (3 Shorts, 5 min each, 2025)](https://doulingyan.com/headlamps-headlamps-headlamps-3-shorts-5-min-each-2025/): This series of short films is a study on the liminality of dark, transitional spaces and the paradoxical comfort, the nostalgia they may evoke. Through low-light settings and practicals, these films assess how light and medium shape spatial experience and perception. In Liminal Comfort (May 2025) is a short film set in a post-disaster landscape […]
- [The Freestyle Shibari Film(Short, 7 min, Mar 2025)](https://doulingyan.com/the-shibari-filmshort-7-min-mar-2025/): In response to a past topology course, The Shibari Film is an experimental short investigating tension through the interaction of rope and body.
- [Be My Hair (Short, 12 min, Jan 2024)](https://doulingyan.com/be-my-hair-short-12-min-jan-2024/): Be My Hair explores the shared life of two first-generation lesbian immigrants disrupted by tech layoffs, through a study of visual mediums—digital and tape—through dual points of view, to reflect contrasting perspectives in a romantic relationship.
- [Room For Two (Documentary, Jan 2024)](https://doulingyan.com/room-for-two-documentary-jan-2024/): Set against the backdrop of the pandemic. The film explores the subtle intimate relationship of youth through the lenses of two close friends.
- [Random Critic Generator (Art&Tech, Dec 2023)](https://doulingyan.com/random-critic-generator-arttech-dec-2023/)
- [Golden Fox (Short, 5 min, Dec 2023)](https://doulingyan.com/golden-fox-short-5-min-dec-2023/)

## Pages

- [Resume](https://doulingyan.com/resume/): Lingyan Dou 窦泠砚 Download PDF下载 PDF Los Angeles, CA洛杉矶 doulingyan@gmail.com github.com/idontneednocats Writer, Director & Developer · Vertical-Drama & AI-Native Production · Bilingual EN / 中文编剧、导演 & 开发者 · 竖屏短剧 & AI-Native 制作 · 中英双语 Summary简介─□✕ Writer, director, and ex-engineer, focusing on character-forward stories and interactive GenAI experiences. Pairs trained screenwriting craft with hands-on generative-AI production […]
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- [Contact](https://doulingyan.com/contact/): lingyandirecting@gmail.com
- [About](https://doulingyan.com/about/): Seeing art as a powerful post-structuralist vessel, 窦泠砚 LingYan Dou(she/her) left a career in tech to pursue her artistic vision as a writer and filmmaker. Her work investigates the intersections of queerness, Asian immigrant experience, and generational identity within a contemporary techno-socio context, with particular attention to the lived realities of Gen-Z youth. She is […]

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