Shen Ruilan now lives and works in Hangzhou. She studied at the China Academy of Art, where she gained a BA and then an MA. Shen is intrigued by the shared sense of transience between the medium of film and material objects exiled from the everyday life. Her work invites the audience for a ghostly wandering in the remains of the visual journeys between eyes and objects. Her artistic practice remakes the moving image, the material space, folk tales and text of her own writing. She was awarded New Asian Currents Awards of Excellence of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival，Tide Award of Beijing International Short Film Festival，and selected into Hainan Island International Film Festival，West Lake International Documentary Festival，CineCina Film Festival amongst others.