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
Installation
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 [...]

Ice Apartment
Ice Apartment

4-Channel Video Projection on Ice Structure
March 2007
In Ice Apartment, the counterbalance between the mundane and the dramatic once again enters my filmic exploration. The installation conveys a situation between four co-inhabitants of a square room. These four figures, three women and one man, are aware of one another’s physical presence, but do not commit themselves [...]

The Water
The Water

3-Channel High-definition Video with Surround Sound Environment Installation
May 2008
The Water is a video installation that comprises of three simultaneous video projections onto three surfaces within an unlit, empty room. The central projection occupies the width of the room and faces the other two projections, laid out side by side on the opposite wall. Between these [...]