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♡ grape(fruit), again, forever
3:30 mins
2022
3:30 mins
2022
A nuanced ode towards Yoko Ono’s artists’ book Grapefruit- where uncertain instructions, the (digitally) permanent and impermanent, and grainy film footage coexist together in this seemingly fragmented world. A set of 6 sensory instructions are gently carried out amidst an unidentifiable ambient soundscape, as the film ponders how to hold onto everything, forever.
This experimental short was created as part of the If You Ask Me 2022 program by Workman Arts and was premiered at the Rendezvous with Madness film festival in November 2022.
This experimental short was created as part of the If You Ask Me 2022 program by Workman Arts and was premiered at the Rendezvous with Madness film festival in November 2022.
0:28
2024
Created for the 28th Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian Internation Film Festival as the Festival Creative Artist
“This is a story that unfolds along a scrolling timeline.
I am fascinated with the idea of exploring images as sound, as language, as music. In the world of IMAGE LULLABY, each and every image we see performs a sound. This work consists of fragments from the Reel Asian archives alongside images collected throughout my personal lived experiences. They imperfectly exist on their own in this vast digital landscape, yet their collective existence is contextualised together in harmony. In unison, they sing. All together, they form a bigger picture- creating something new: a story, a film festival, an image lullaby.”
Animation music credit: Camille Kiku Belair
I am fascinated with the idea of exploring images as sound, as language, as music. In the world of IMAGE LULLABY, each and every image we see performs a sound. This work consists of fragments from the Reel Asian archives alongside images collected throughout my personal lived experiences. They imperfectly exist on their own in this vast digital landscape, yet their collective existence is contextualised together in harmony. In unison, they sing. All together, they form a bigger picture- creating something new: a story, a film festival, an image lullaby.”
Animation music credit: Camille Kiku Belair
♡ In Full Circle
2:21 mins
2022
2:21 mins
2022
"In Full Circle" is a series of short video still lifes- together they are a personal and contextual reimagining of the traditional still life paintings from the historical art collection of the Ontario Society of Artists.
Created for THE ARCHIVE OF MERIT: FROM THE OSA TO OCAD Exhibition at Ada Slaight Gallery, June 2022.
Created for THE ARCHIVE OF MERIT: FROM THE OSA TO OCAD Exhibition at Ada Slaight Gallery, June 2022.
♡ Eternity (Reprise)
31 seconds, looping
2023
31 seconds, looping
2023
Eternity (Reprise) is a musing on time.
Every play through of Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 indicates a passing of time, of tangible duration, a timestamp.
Eternity (Reprise) is a looping video work looking to convey a sense of forever, of infinity. The portrait cellphone videos used impart some sort of looping, circling, or repetition; the familiar piano music playing over and over again with no foreseeable end within the space.
Every play through of Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 indicates a passing of time, of tangible duration, a timestamp.
Eternity (Reprise) is a looping video work looking to convey a sense of forever, of infinity. The portrait cellphone videos used impart some sort of looping, circling, or repetition; the familiar piano music playing over and over again with no foreseeable end within the space.
It is a visual representation of forever.
♡ Lola, Poh Poh: This is everything I didn’t say
10:11 mins
2021
10:11 mins
2021
Created for the Narratives Through Global Space Online Residency 2021.
Set respectively in the Philippines and Hong Kong, filmmakers Angelica Llanera and Agnes Wong each compose a quiet letter to their grandmothers in this nuanced portrait of the two older women- expressing the sentiments they never had the opportunity to say. Fragmented memories, unhealed wounds, and secrets are explored in this cathartic experimental short about longing.
Recipient of the OCADU President’s Choice Award 2021 for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction in Film
Set respectively in the Philippines and Hong Kong, filmmakers Angelica Llanera and Agnes Wong each compose a quiet letter to their grandmothers in this nuanced portrait of the two older women- expressing the sentiments they never had the opportunity to say. Fragmented memories, unhealed wounds, and secrets are explored in this cathartic experimental short about longing.
Recipient of the OCADU President’s Choice Award 2021 for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction in Film
♡ Form Follows Fiction
2:09 mins
2015
2:09 mins
2015
Video portrait of Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Daniela Treija during Dutch Design Week.
Project initiated by the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Project initiated by the Design Academy Eindhoven.
♡ 11:11
1:50 mins
2015
1:50 mins
2015
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Silver Key) 2015 recipient
Featured in TDSBCreates 2015
Featured in TDSBCreates 2015