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To Write from Memory
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Emory CHAO JOHNSON
- 18 min
- 2023
- Experimental
- English, Mandarin
- English and Chinese Subtitles
The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival — Teddy Award Nomination
The 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival — Golden Reel Award
The 27th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival — Best International Short Film
12:00 PM, SAT, AUG 10
Innis Town Hall
Screening with · DIANA (15 mins), Manting (15 mins), Tanjong Rhu (The Casuarina Cove) (19 mins), Baby Gay (9 mins), Something Blue (14 mins)
12:00 PM, SAT, AUG 10
Innis Town Hall
Screening with
DIANA (15 mins), Manting (15 mins), Tanjong Rhu (The Casuarina Cove) (19 mins), Baby Gay (9 mins), Something Blue (14 mins)
Opaque memories seep into a quotidian flow despite efforts to move onward. Under the gaze of the camera, this audiovisual diary of the young filmmaker devolves into a confrontation with their own past.
Director
Emory CHAO JOHNSON (they/them) is an artist settled on the land of the Tongva (Los Angeles Basin) whose work centers on the real and abstract forces that charge visions of new lifeworlds. Their film To Write from Memory had its world premiere at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. Their 2020 short F1-100 has received awards and recognitions from numerous international film festivals. Chao Johnson was a production fellow on the Netflix Original Documentary Disclosure (dir. Sam Feder).
Credits
- DirectorEmory CHAO JOHNSON
- Principal CastYosilu CHEN, Cynthia CHENG Yuan, Emory CHAO JOHNSON
- Associate ProducerLI Qianru
- CinematographerFarrah SU
- EditorEmory Chao Johnson
- SoundOne Thousand Birds