Zhao Yanbin is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and curator whose practice explores “distance” as both a conceptual and material condition—unfolding across temporal, spatial, and affective registers. Working with 16mm experimental film, video installation, performance, photography, and mixed media, Zhao examines the ruptures and entanglements that distance creates—across histories, geographies, and subjectivities. His work engages themes of labor, memory, language, and diaspora, often navigating the liminal space between the visible and the ineffable, the translated and the untranslatable.

Zhao holds an MFA in Film from California Institute of the Arts. His work has been presented at festivals including Image Forum Festival (Tokyo), Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Chicago), Beijing International Short Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival

(Scotland), and Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and at institutions such as LUX (London), UCCA Edge (Shanghai), REDCAT (Los Angeles), and Los Angeles Filmforum. In 2024, he received the LACE Lightning Fund for emerging artists and was selected for the Visual Studies

Workshop residency in Rochester, NY.

He is the co-founder of 飞蚊 mosmote, a collective platform dedicated to independent, experimental, and critically engaged cinema through screenings, workshops, and publishing initiatives. Its recent programs include Burning Atlas, a screening that focuses on experimental shorts that traverse linear time and break through geographical boundaries amid global states of emergency.

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赵延彬是一名艺术家、电影创作者与策展人，他的实践围绕“距离”这一概念与物质性条件展开，并深入其在时间、空间与情感层面的生成、流动与抵触。他的创作涉及16毫米实验电影、影像装置、表演、摄影及混合媒介，通过这些形式，他持续探讨“距离”所制造的断裂与缠结，穿越历史地理、主体经验与文化政治之间的张力。他的作品聚焦于劳工、记忆、语言与离散等主题，常常在可见与不可言说、可译与不可译之间的缝隙中运作。

赵延彬拥有加州艺术学院电影硕士学位。他的作品曾于Image Forum电影节、Onion City实验电影节、北京国际短片联展、Alchemy影像艺术节、洛杉矶亚太电影节，以及LUX London、UCCA Edge、洛杉矶REDCAT与Los Angeles Filmforum等影展、机构或空间展出。2024年，他获得LACE  Lightning Fund 资助，并入选Visual Studies Workshop驻地项目。

他是艺术小组飞蚊 mosmote的联合创办者。飞蚊致力于推动独立、实验及批判性的电影和艺术，通过放映、工作坊与出版计划介入影像的社会实践。近期策划项目燃烧地图Burning Atlas呈现了一组在全球危机状态下，穿越线性时间与地域边界的实验短片。