💌 Love Film Immersive Experience - 2025 Valentine Special

This is the season for LOVE!

New Muse Collective will hold love film screenings and Relationship-focused art therapy for our community in not only Brooklyn, but also Manhattan.

2.14 6:30 @Accent Society (89 Fifth Ave, Suite 702, New York, NY)

Screening - Documentaries about Love Art Therapy Workshop - Relationship Related

🔹 6:30 - 6:45 PM | Opening Poetry Spoken Words by Reem Rello - Poetry Fellow

🔹 6:45 - 8:00 PM | Film Screening (100 min)

🎬 Mariposa Apartment (2021, 14 min, Experimental)

Director: Jinglu JiI

Inside the Mariposa Apartment, I recorded an argument with my boyfriend. This short film begins with that real recording, reconstructing the chaotic and unfamiliar time-space of a couple.(*2021 FIRST International Film Festival Main Competition)

🎬 Tasting the Wind (2023, 70 min, Documentary)

Director: Haotian Liu

After the pandemic, as the weather turns cooler, an elderly couple in their 80s lead a quiet life. A discovered photo album makes them realize that only three people of their generation remain, prompting them to visit a distant relative in another city.(*Premiered at 2023 Visions du Réel)

🎬 Terracotta (2015, 18 min, Documentary)

Director: Yi Ding | Starring: Mei-Hui Tseng, Wei Wu

A closeted gay couple struggles with family pressure to marry. They invite two female friends to pose as their girlfriends for a “double date” at a family gathering.

🔹 8:00 - 8:45 PM | Film-Based Art Therapy Experience

Licensed clinical art therapist Jinglu Ji will guide participants through an interactive group session, offering a safe space for creative expression. Using scenes from the films as visual prompts, this session integrates Jungian archetypes, Exposure Therapy, and Narrative Therapy to deepen self-awareness and explore personal attachment dynamics.

RSVP https://lu.ma/9kuotctv

2.16 6:00 @A Space Gallery (13 Grattan, 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY)

PAPER RING (2024, 46 min, Fiction)  Directed by Jingyu Li

A story about a girl bringing a boy home to meet her parents.

*Official Selection, Main Competition, 7th Jia Zhangke Art Center 86358 Short Film Week

TERRACOTTA WARRIOR (2016, 18 min, Documentary)  Directed by Yi Ding

A hidden gay couple hired two female friends to be their “fake partners”, and going back home introducing their “hired partner” to their parents. 

Future Partner(2024, 5min, Fiction)  Directed by Yulong Cheng

When AI begins to replace roles in intimate relationships, tragedy becomes inevitable.

*Official Selection, 2024 FIRST Ultra Short Film Section

(Director Q&A in-person)

MARIPOSA APARTMENT(2022, 15 min, Experimental) Directed by Jinglu Ji

 Reflections and transformation sparked by real recordings of a couple’s fight.

*Nominated for Best Narrative Short & Best Experimental Film at the 2021 FIRST Film Festival) (Director Q&A in-person)

LET’S SIT IN THE SUN (2024, 5 min, Fiction) Directed by Yanwenjun Liu

“On this particular day, the two Lin sisters reunite, bringing their father’s urn to a mountain at the cemetery. They bask in the sun, picnic, and reminisce.” （Premiered at 2024 FIRST Film Festival)

RSVP - https://lu.ma/bc1q04oe