Devin Jie Allen

Devin Jie Allen

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Encounters in Light 2020

Encounters in Light is the poetic documentation of two artists, friends, and lovers. The film eschews any biographical structure and instead looks at the ways these two artists are bound by time and light. Lawrence Jordan and Joanna McClure have extensive bodies of work between them. The film interweaves Joanna’s poetry, Lawrence’s films, personal interviews, and emotive imagery to produce a sensory engagement with a long lasting friendship and artistic practice. An understanding of mortality is ever present and the film let’s that feeling permeate throughout. How does one relate to years of love, friendship, and art? How does it resonate in the present moment? In the film, there is a sense of boundlessness and understanding that indeed, time dissolves all boundaries until there is only the possibility of light.
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Blue Distance 2021

Occupying gaps in memory and history, Blue Distance serves as a personal and poetic intervention into the filmmaker’s familial immigration story. The film places in communion the mythic powers of cinema and the production of personal and cultural histories. Underpinning these tensions is the immigratory reality of occupying stolen land while trying to secure one’s own actualization.
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And You Will Hear What Is 2023

A figure passes through an unconscious repository of experience. Unable to find its way, meaning soon drifts out of reach and what remains is birdsong. Inspired by the works of Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, and Judee Sill.
Devin Allen

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Phantom Mary 2019 (5.8)

The faded and fragmented memories of a relationship that's perpetually under sedation.
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I Can Hurt Myself & I Can Accomplish Things 2016

Following a recent trauma, a man decides to pursue an alternative form of therapy in hopes of bettering himself.