COSMIC TORTOISE (dreaming… interviewing… searching…)
In Trinidad and Tobago where everyone aims to leave for somewhere else, lonely Trinidadian Lisa encounters the Chinese expat Xialin who invites Lisa to participate in her research of creating a ‘behavioural clone’. Their friendship grows and develops quickly but is challenged by the possibility of a long goodbye.
Cosmic Tortoise is fiscally sponsored by Film Independent. If you’d like to contribute to the film’s journey, please donate here:
http://my.filmindependent.org/CosmicTortoise
(Your donation is 100% tax-deductible as allowed by law.) Thank you!
ALL THE FILMS IN MY GRANDFATHER’S CLOSET (compiling… archiving… researching…)
ALL THE FILMS is an expected series of documentaries, telling the tale of my grandfather, a Chinese Trinidadian whose life had been defined by an early marriage, resistance to cultural customs and the changing times in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1930s to 2020s via films found in his closet at the time of his death. The films are a range of DVDs, Blu-Rays and VHSs of Hollywood films, personal home videos and old Chinese cinema, which will be compiled, edited and extensively manipulated.
Please email ec@eleniechung.net for more info!
screencap collection (link to tumblr account)
DEPARTURES (in post-production)
What kind of funeral do you give a dead turtle?
EvL (2023)
A little film about the on-going struggles with creating a ‘behavioural clone’.
EST. TIME OF ARRIVAL (2021): for PRAKSIS Presents. Watch the film here.
My friend now lives 15 hours ahead of me.
She lives in tomorrow. I live in yesterday.
CITRIC ACID (2021) Watch the film here.
Aino and Yu Xing are two best friends and two working fine artists. Competition is natural between the two, but their relationship may be heading toward a breaking point.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER (2020)
In a prestigious all-girls secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago, the Michaelmas term seeps with anxiety for all in their last year. As exams approach with expected dread, one by one, young girls are vanishing in the school grounds.
MONK BY THE SEA (2019)
GOLDFISH (2015)