Eye Exam is an experimental film embedding subjective experience within a time-based medium. Replicating a clinical eye examination prior to surgery, the work comprises three tests from a first-person perspective. To reconstruct this subjective vision, I ultimately abandoned digital animation for a more physical process: compiling materials into a PowerPoint and re-filming the screen. Manual focus adjustments mimic the human eye, obstructions simulate blinking, and slight camera trembling stands in for breath. This process is an effort to return to the body through a form of experience that cannot be fully automated. The sound design features precise beeps, abrupt edits, and a cold, AI-generated voiceover delivering instructions.

During Test B, jump cuts insert fragments of personal memory. The train footage was shot in the summer of 2025, during a solo journey from south to north in China. This rural landscape begins to resemble an imagined, unreachable place before being abruptly cut short by Test C. This return to the clinical tone mirrors perception itself: gone before it can be held, leaving only a vivid trace.