Artist

Lesley Loksi Chan

Lesley Loksi Chan (b. Hamilton, Canada) is an artist and filmmaker. Through experimental, handmade, and process-based filmmaking she creates moving-image works as mementos.

Chan’s films have been presented internationally at galleries and festivals including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Festival International du Film sur l'Art (Montreal), Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto), National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), Frameline (San Francisco), Goethe-Institut China (Beijing), British Film Institute (London), and Villa Medici Film Festival (Rome).

Her work has received accolades including the Award for Best Emerging Film/Videomaker at Images Festival for Curse Cures (2009), the York University Graduate Studies Thesis Prize for The Urge to Run a Lap (2017), and both the Teddy Award and the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 75th Berlinale for Lloyd Wong, Unfinished (2025).

@lesleyloksichan

Artist Code: 193

Videography

Lloyd Wong, Unfinished

2025, 28:49 minutes, colour, English and Cantonese (closed captions available, or subtitles in English or Chinese)

THE MASTERS

2012, 01:54 minutes, colour, N/A

Breakfast

2012, 00:25 minutes, colour, N/A

MAKING LADIES

2010, 08:33 minutes, colour, English

Curse Cures

2009, 10:43 minutes, colour, English

Bacon & Bovary

2007, 01:03 minutes, colour, English

Traveling To Tuesday

2007, 23:13 minutes, colour, English

Wanda & Miles

2007, 12:26 minutes, English

Pearlie Got the Boot

2006, 01:33 minutes

My Matsura

2006, 06:22 minutes

Compost Mon Amour

2006, 11:45 minutes

Dear Sister

2005, 08:47 minutes

i no i no

2005, 10:51 minutes, colour, English

Critical Writing

Curatorial Incubator v. 18: Learning from the Local
by Lisa Steele. Toronto: V tape, 2022.