'Chameleon' repurposes security envelope patterns into hand-processed color photograms through several generations of contact and optical printing. Live performances feature variable speed projection, heightening the experience of scale and movement.
FIVE MOVEMENTS is titled after the system wǔxíng, which is very hard to describe, but in this film manifests as dreams and waking life enmeshing in the space of personal melancholia, theater, and myths surrounding the home. This new (2024) cut features recent images and videos recorded in Edison, New Jersey, and Shanghai.
Change is a 16mm text animation that deconstructs and manipulates Chinese language in its representation of morphology, Taoist principles, and celestial cycles of time. The title refers to the I Ching, the Book of Changes, and 变 (traditional: 變), the Chinese word for 'change', in its translation that implies 'transformation'.
