Red Carpet Premiere Party

A woman stands at her window, staring out into the summer night, when a luminous body enters and bursts into the atmosphere. Time is suspended, and the woman takes a journey through space and time, at three hundred thousand kilometres per second…

Can AAPI women in solidarity, as connected foreign debris, evolve into a new creature – a Chimera? The performance film explores these questions through an immersive sound/optics environment.

The digital presence left by people I knew who died young has vanished. Songs they uploaded, photo albums, public diary entries, all deleted and all that’s left is generic obituaries. When I think of these people, I think of a place. With two cameras, I’m capturing the outline of a memory we shared there in past and in present.

The Life and Times of G is a single channel version of an immersive four screen video installation that explores the tension between two opposing modes of technology and cognition. Inspired by Ursula Franklin’s concepts of holistic and prescriptive technologies, the piece examines how adaptive, individual-centered processes contrast with rigid, conformity-driven systems that increasingly shape human experience. The work layers this with Iain McGilchrist’s exploration of the brain’s left and right hemispheres, drawing parallels between the dominance of the analytical, prescriptive left hemisphere and society’s shift toward mechanization, control, and efficiency. The central character, G, is portrayed by two dancers, representing these opposing forces within both the mind and technological systems. Their movements, choreographed to embody both the freedom of holistic thinking and the constraints of prescriptive systems, take place against shifting landscapes of natural and industrial environments. The dancers’ costumes, made from discarded consumer goods, accumulate throughout their journey.

An orgiastic mutant monster post-modern pop art pigeon-fueled horror apocalypse!!!

The world of consumption vs the world of the artist, which one will be lasting when we wake up? Lost Dreams is about dreams. Scientists have not fully figured out dreams. The ancients believed you could predict the future through your dreams, Native Americans created dream-capturing devices. Some people keep dream diaries. Freud believed that we could fix people’s psychological problems by analyzing their dreams. Lost Dreams is an experimental film which explores the idea that when we sleep we edit our dreams, and, in the context of this film, what is being edited is the idea of the free world of the artist to create and the consumption world of modern society. With consumption and greed does the artist still exist? Conflicting worlds a dreamer might explore in one night’s sleep.

Virtual Phases is an experimental exploration of small and fabricated spaces with techniques often reserved for epic landscape studies and drone exploration. Discarded items such as old fabric, scrap metal, foil blankets, and crumpled paper created cave-like scenes that were filmed with a specialty probe lens to further enhance the unusual qualities of these imagined locations. We were invited to create a video to pair with Till MacIvor Meyn’s new composition, which was a lovely collaborative process resulting in Virtual Phases.

“SHAPED” is an animation about modern life phenomena. The protagonist, Shanshan, enters a glass cup, experiencing various degrees of influence and uncontrollable changes. After a brief escape, he still chooses to return to this cycle