middle way cinema
List of film programs curated by Shen Xin since 2025, dedicated to the dance of the relative and the ultimate through moving images.
Pig at the Crossing, 27 March 2026, Talla Stafainn, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (Isle of Skye)
Screening of Pig at the Crossing (2024) by Khyentse Norbu in a free community screening event.
Sprouts in Water, 18 December 2025, Collective, Edinburgh
A programme of short films exploring forms of embodied knowledge through stories that invite awareness in both the urgent and transcendent qualities of time.
Scent Line of a Moving Mountain Eiko Soga, 17:59, 2025,
Saffron, Thomson and Craighead, 10:36, 2018
Deviant, Emily Beaney, 14:12, 2021
but this is the language we met in, Grounds of Coherence #1, Shen Xin, 12:16, 2023
Aerial, Margaret Tait, 4:00, 1974
When filmmaking is a first language spoken to protect, 3 May 2025, Talla Stafainn, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (Isle of Skye)
A series of 24 one-minute films —presented with The One Minutes (Amsterdam), curated by Shen Xin, and joined with UNEMENU — snacks made by Ali Van. When filmmaking is a first language spoken to protect explores filmmaking as a site for co-creating language through relationships with knowledge. The series is curated from both open call submissions and The One Minutes Collection, which comprises over 18,000 video works. The selected 24 One Minutes were submitted from Argentina, China, France, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Malta, Morocco, Suriname, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The selection showcases a diverse range of perspectives and visions, highlighting the power of filmmaking as a medium for co-creating language to guide us in how we might come to know again.
Participating artists: Shen Xin, Kaixin Chen, Teresa Busuttil, Adele Dipasquale, Thierry Oussou, Ali Van, Pllurral, Yanna Kok, Huiqi He, Mina Yee, Juliana Soria, Xiya Wang and Yuyue He, Guilliano Zaalman, Arturo Navarro Villacampa, Nazli Dincel, Jingyi li, Alex Olloman, Toke Juhoklee, Kejlow Nielsen, feral mimesis, Josefina Gilardi, Chao Tang, Dario Ricciardi, meng florent, Hamza Halloubi