Experimental film blending live-action footage with AI-generated visuals | 00:05:13 | 2025

LAB 867 follows an experiment in which a man’s brain is connected to a device, projecting his consciousness onto a screen for observation. As this mental landscape unfolds, loops of awareness, disorder, and blurred realities emerge, questioning the boundaries between mind and machine. The work draws inspiration from the ruins of the Xinhua Factory in Meishan, a Cold War site once devoted to producing atomic clocks and enforcing unified time—where precision concealed control. Blending documentary footage and AI-generated imagery, the film explores cycles of perception and surveillance, resistance and submission. Through fractured montage, repetition, and sound design that oscillates between the material and imagined, LAB 867 transforms the remnants of technological discipline into a meditation on consciousness, control, and the instability of time.

Nuo Xu
Born in 2003 in Hangzhou, China, and graduated from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Nuo Xu is a filmmaker and visual artist whose practice spans experimental film and multi-screen installation. Integrating editing, sound, and curation, her works explore nonlinear narratives, dream structures, and the instability of perception. Through continual formal experimentation, she probes the boundaries between reality and fiction. Exhibitions include Overlapping Nights (The Crypt Gallery, 2024) and The Wrinkly Apple (The Batsford Gallery, 2023).

Wenwen Deng
A Chinese multidisciplinary artist and graduate of Central Saint Martins, Wenwen Deng works across performance, painting, digital art, and moving image. Her practice investigates landscapes, indigenous cultures, and the entanglement of human and non-human life. Through travel and research, she examines postcolonial and ecological issues shaped by urbanisation and media. Recent recognitions include the Phoebe Llewellyn Smith Prize (2024) and participation in Manifest:io (Berlin, London, 2025) and the STRATA residency in Xinjiang.