Serena Kuo is a cinematographer, film/video artist, designer and co-creator of Studio Mercury, New York. In content, her work examines the construction of space and its manipulation of time, narrative, and rhythm. In form, she is inspired by street art, travel culture, and architecture.

Or vice versa.

Lifestream
  • trying to get rid of my last Dark Was the Night ticket, anyone? Selling at cost. Orchestra seat row F.

  • I am nothing without my friends.

  • WTF YYY no NYC?

  • Glasses feel weird after a day of not wearing them

CONTACT
serenakuo[at]studiomercury-ny[dot]com

I am what I make.

Captured

Captured

Video, 13 min with surround sound
May 2008
Looking at my body of work, I regard Captured, my most recent one-channel video, as a point of change. For the first time, I place myself within the frame of this fifteen-minute film as the one and only character. In doing so, I consciously pluck myself away from the [...]