2026.09
Editorial intern at People’s Daily Online, participating in news production and short-video planning.
Internship
Zhan Zhiyue / Constance
I am a practice-based researcher working at the intersection of cultural memory studies, digital humanities, and documentary imaging. Over the past three years, I have directed and written over ten audiovisual works, receiving more than ten awards at international, national, and provincial levels. My works have been featured on People’s Daily Online, Xuexi Qiangguo, and other media platforms.
Grounded in the everyday life of southeastern coastal China—from vintage record shops in Quanzhou fishing villages to intergenerational family memories in Kinmen—my practice engages with endangered local cultures and intangible heritage. For me, documentary imaging is not merely a medium of expression but a method of cultural inquiry: through sustained field observation and visual storytelling, I explore the visual translation and digital dissemination of cultural heritage, seeking to build public memory for silenced communities and forgotten narratives.
Keywords
Cultural memory
Documentary as method
Digital humanities
Algorithmic culture
AIGC & cultural production
- Practice-based cultural memory research through documentary imaging
- Algorithmic politics of cultural content distribution in platform societies
- Media geography: social media, check-in culture, and the production of urban space
- AIGC technologies and the ethics of local cultural production
News
2026.07
Invited to the Beijing Film Academy for the 3rd “Jingcai Taiwan” Youth Short Film Summit; Until Next Time won Third Prize.
Exchange
2026.06
Seaside Gramophone won National Third Prize at the China Micro-Film Festival “Golden Hummingbird Award,” selected from more than 3,000 entries.
Award
2025.11
Seaside Gramophone won National Special Grand Prize in both Short Video and Photography at the 2nd “China-Global Communication Cup.”
Award
2025.09
Seaside Gramophone was selected as a National Category III Work at “Light and Shadow Chronicles” Online Micro-Documentary Collective Creation.
Award
2023.09–2026.09
Independently operated a new media account from zero to one, achieving more than one million total views.
Account
Research
Until Next Time
An observational documentary short that takes Minnan dialect as an auditory thread, connecting Quanzhou and Kinmen through old streets, temple-side breakfast stalls, and night markets. Director · Screenwriter · 4 min 06 sec
Seaside Gramophone
A documentary work centered on emotional ties across the strait, using Minnan soundscapes and fragments of Taipei memory to construct a narrative space of nostalgia. Director · Screenwriter · 4 min 06 sec
50 Portraits Before Graduation
A graduation-season documentary recording a student photography team as they capture portraits of 50 graduates. Assistant Director · Scriptwriter · Cinematographer · 21 min 23 sec
AIGC and the Ethics of Cultural Production
A practice-based inquiry developed through the Bitter Melon AI film and Xiuyang Village picture-book project, proposing AI empowerment rather than replacement in local cultural production.