In this poetic and artistic portrayal of Cornell’s underground accelerator, I have captured the beauty and colors of scientific machinery, cords, and structures. The underground scenes in the lab are juxtaposed with the rigorous, dynamic, and physical scenes of football training and games above ground at Schoellkopf Field. My aim is to showcase the Wilson Lab from a different perspective by giving the audience a sensory experience, both visually and aurally, of the synchrotron underground and the football training above. Through this immersion in the underground world of steel, we ask ourselves what we see in the future of science and find new meanings and perspectives in scientific research.
A 20-year-old college student confronts her chronophobia – a fear of time – which leads her to examine the complex perceptions of time and reality. Through a nonlinear description of the linearly developed time, she questions her purpose of existence and identity and contemplates recent changes in her life.
The (Un)fathomable is an experimental short film filmed and edited by Shuqian Lyu. In the film, I explore the relationship between humans and the ocean, and touch on questions on ethics, environmentalism, and the future of human kind. The footage was mainly collected in Miami, FL, and was shot on GoPro and SonyAlpha7iiiThe Dream Cafe is a Documentary directed, produced, and edited by Shuqian Lyu. The film was made in the summer of 2019, in Shanghai, China. This film won the Quill and Scroll Documentary winner, The Arlington Film Festival 2020 High School Filmmaker’s Program Official Selection + Best Audio Winner, and various nominations.The Murderess is a short film directed and edited by Shuqian Lyu and written by Isabelle McLeod Daphnis. The film was made in fall 2021. It was also a Delta Kappa Alpha production.
