These videos exist for your viewing pleasure. However, they also harbor a secret.

Each of the video files below is also a digital archive of several Chinese woman who have disappeared in the last few years.

Some disappearances are due to residential detentions, abductions linked to public activism on behalf of industrial workers, women, democracy and public transparency.

Some disappearances are mortal: bodies found drowned in water, last days marked by volatile combinations of sociopolitical exhaustion, mental illness, gender-based violence, and immigrant poverty.

To unpack these archives, you must follow some simple directions.