Venus Descending

Summer of Lost Love Kris feels something is missing in his love life. After meeting a gay guy named Chester, who introduces him to Julia (his soon to be new girlfriend). Kris starts to feel different around Chester when Julia leaves for her internship. Kris and Chester start to spend more time together and start up a relationship. When caught in the act by Julia, Kris is now faced with a choice of man or woman.

Sugar Cookie Infidelity is the tie that binds in this modern tale of love. Mae recognizes that her long-term partner, April has lost passion for her. So, Mae insidiously invites the irritating nymphet, Joon, to be their house-guest. As revenge? As a distraction? When April and Joon are left alone for an evening, April finds her annoyance with Joon transforms into a game-changing curiosity.

La dama del collar A rich woman's personal secretary borrows an expensive piece of jewelry without permission for a night on the town... and then loses it. Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.

Set Theory I-IV Aspects of this piece are related to some of the basic terms used in the branch of mathematics called Set Theory, e.g.: ‘union’, ‘intersection’, ‘difference’, ‘complement’, the ’empty set’, the ‘universal set’, ‘elements’, ‘subsets’, ‘operations’ and ‘groups’. In the first instance the piece involved producing and collating different sets of vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and curved graphic transitions. These were subsequently combined or sequenced by way of different rules that keep the conflict of planes, forms, tonal values and colour foremost.

Candle Candle is a film that documents a Polaroid developing. It is shot on a 400ft roll of black and white 16mm film at 72fps. The film presents this photographic event in reverse. Over the duration of the film the image of a candle disappears back into the emulsion of the photograph.

Life of Zhang Chu Zhang Chu lives a simple, charmed life in the small town of Tao Yuan. His ex-wife, Cao Shujuan, left him behind to pursue greater dreams in Beijing, while his girlfriend, Li Hong, is back to town from Beijing to pursue a stable relationship with him but ends up failing. The three childhood friends struggle with each other and seek for a way out...

West Window / East Windo... These two films were made with a pinhole lens covering the aperture of a 16mm film magazine. The rooms in which they were shot, and the windows they depict, refer back to cameras in two respects: the camera as ‘room’ (and the camera obscura); and the camera that the filmmaker has put to one side. Having hand-cranked the film to expose it, the traces of light, dark and fleeting imagery are a direct, abstract translation of the filmmaker’s gestures.

Primitive Cinema Light into a waiting chamber.

Uncle Chen is 70 Years O...

Cut Out Cut Out is a largely hand-made piece involving different coloured cards with apertures cut out of them, which have been superimposed in combinations starting from opposite ends of a simple spectrum (from yellow to blue). At the same time, the method of superimposition is more complicated than it might at first seem, adding to the instability of the various planes, edges and colours.