Heartland is a documentary video work that records the human life and landscapes of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. Through a combination of observational footage, aerial views, and time-lapse photography, the work presents the region as both a vast physical space and a lived cultural environment shaped by everyday rhythms, geography, and memory. The Chinese title, Xinjiang (心疆), draws on a play on sound between xin meaning “heart” and Xin in Xinjiang, extending the meaning of the work toward the idea of an inner territory, a frontier of feeling and belonging. Grounded in documentary image-making, the project brings together natural scenery and human presence, allowing the land to be seen not simply as a backdrop, but as a space deeply connected to emotion, identity, and lived experience. In this sense, Heartland explores Xinjiang as a territory of both landscape and spirit, where the visible world and the inner world remain closely intertwined.