Doku: The Self is Lu Yang's first narrative film within the ongoing Doku series. Doku, Lu Yang's digital avatar, was born before the turbulent year 2020 and developed during a time of uncertainty. Combining technology, dance, exotic costumes, Buddhist concepts, and physical movements, Lu Yang infuses personal life experiences into Doku, weaving a video centered around specific memories and lived encounters. The film's narrative is triggered by Doku's personal dream, which serves as a catalyst for a series of events. In this dream, Lu Yang's digital avatar experiences a world in decay and impending disaster, mirroring the struggles of the world's inhabitants. However, the extinction event of the dream turns into an inevitable awakening - an airplane flying through clouds and thunderstorms. The phrase "dying in a dream and living in reality" illustrates the artist's complete detachment in reflecting on personal experience. Lu Yang navigates between subject and object with a composed perspective throughout the film. By perceiving the "overview effect," the artist has encountered the non-duality of death and birth - a perpetual cycle of transformation and overlap that coexists in an unbreakable manner.