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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
This videotape titled F I L M evolved from an initial impulse to download film noir sequences without characters in the footage. My PIXABAY search instead yielded sequences of almost completely black (or almost completely white) film stocks. I decided to combine the specks and scratches of film footage with moving images of… ⊕
2025, 09:55 minutes, colour
tapecode 2087.03
Father Tree is a poignant animated short film that explores the profound bond between a father and daughter, blending personal experience, mythology, and poetic storytelling. When a young woman returns to care for her ailing father, she discovers his illness is transforming him into a tree. As his transformation progresses, she… ⊕
2024, 05:20 minutes, colour
tapecode 320.10
Canada forcibly incarcerated and dispossessed thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese heritage, relocating them to internment camps, or in the case of the Kobayashi family, a sugar beet work farm in the Canadian Prairies. After accessing the 119 page custodial file of her great-grandfather in the National Archives of Canada,… ⊕
Snippets of summer sun, waves, birds, rain - and, yes, flowers - flicker and flit, summed by famous aphorisms on Nature.
Footage was shot on June 28, 2021, and records the various actions that build to a single performance. The work dialogues with the performance for camera tradition, but it is clearly edited and narratively stylized. There is no direct audience. The main recorded action is me sitting on bags of ice for several hours while they… ⊕