Kexin Yin is a filmmaker currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Working primarily through 16mm film, her practice explores the intersection of individual experience and social structures. Interested in the relationship between the micro and the macro, she examines how personal destinies and everyday choices unfold within broader historical and social frameworks. Drawing from her observations and lived experiences as a woman and a young filmmaker, her work engages with themes of gender, power, and patriarchy. Through symbolic visual structures and personal narratives, she also addresses questions of resource distribution, class hierarchy, and generational anxiety, and how these forces leave subtle yet lasting traces in private life.
On the Table, 2026, film still, 16mm, directed by Kexin Yin
On the Table constructs a symbolic world around a dining table, using no dialogue and relying on structured rules, food, and character positioning to express ideas about resource distribution, hierarchy, and generational anxiety.
On the Table, 2026, film still, 16mm, directed by Kexin Yin
On the Table, 2026, film still, 16mm, directed by Kexin Yin