Film Categories: Memory

  • Where the snow-fed Rio del Llano met the edge of the desert

    Where the snow-fed Rio del Llano met the edge of the desert(2023 Length: 04:56 min), is a site specific film, in 2019 I visited the geographical location, Pear blossom Highway in California which is near the Antelope Valley (the armpit of California). A place also known as The Socialist Ruins. Here, Job Harriman, a socialist lawyer who ran for Vice President of the United States, Governor of California and Mayor of Los Angeles, founded in 1914 the cooperative colony – Llano del Rio which means plain by the river and the colony flourished for four years between 1914 to 1918.…

  • Road 3

    Repeating and predictable cycles, memory loss

  • We Are We Come We Go

    A meditation on time and acquaintances; a walk through a maze; the artist draws a circular path.

  • xīn nī 廖芯妮

    xīn nī 廖芯妮 (“understanding you”) is an intimate auto-ethnographic portrait expressed through dance and digital technologies. Liaw engages in intergenerational conversations with her family and community to transform the linguistic divide between her Chinese name and its Hakka translation into a space for healing. Drawing on themes of decolonizing queerness to emphasize self-love and self-curiosity, the work explores both physical and technological attachments. Bodies made up of 3D-rendered cultural objects hold space for the stories of Liaw’s elders, while expanding the growing web of her ancestral knowledge. 

  • WAR TIMES

    An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940’s Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age. Adoring and loathing one another until full acknowledgment that it should always be this way.

  • Blinkity Black

    One blink, one lost image. Another one, another lost image. And so on thousand times a day. This is the story of a man marked by lost images from his life. Blinkity Black is created from all the moments that escape the eyes simply because our eyelids close. If we could discover all these lost moments, what would we discover? And witch image to save?

  • Cha ni chinu chi’in ñu’un / Construida de tierra / Built of Earth

    Cha ni chinu chi’in ñu’un / Construida de tierra / Built of Earth is an experimental documentary project consisting of a short film, a publication, and a collaborative installation that explores the immense and ancient family home at the centre of Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. The cavernous adobe house is in the process of being restored after a devastating earthquake that saw a portion of its roof collapse in February 2018. The short film follows the restoration process, with its focus on traditional building materials and techniques, creative reuse, and local artisanal production. In doing so, it explores the origins of…

  • Karaoke

    The home has changed. The palm oil trees have grown in endless symmetry. The landscape rusts and the nostalgia turns. KARAOKE is a homecoming story. BETIK returns to his village to help his mother with the karaoke a few years after the death of his father. During the day, he has also taken a job with his uncle making karaoke videos. KARAOKE is a story that takes you back home yet reminds you to go back where you came from. KARAOKE is a debut feature film about home and deception in a karaoke club within a palm oil plantation in…

  • My Canada Train Journey

    50-plus years after a memorable overnight Canadian train ride, Sandy McLennan boards regional and remote lines, with main line and public transit between them. This time shooting Double 8mm film, the same format he fell in love with while screening family home movies just for himself. What was he thinking?

  • longer than that, she said

    A meditation on anticipatory loss, this film examines the artists relationship with grief and attempts to ground herself. This film was hand processed in cilantro, mint and tansy at the Film Farm Residency hosted by Phillip Hoffman. Dyed in turmeric and walnut and utilizing freezing film decay techniques.