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Notes of a Crocodile
鳄鱼手记
Daphne XU
- 18 min
- 2024
- Experimental
- Mandarin, English, Khmer
- English Subtitles
The 47th Cinéma du RéelShort Film Award
3:00 PM, SUN, NOV 22
Innis Town Hall
Screening
Screening with Love Is a Book (22 min), Two Suns (15 min), Whisperings of the Moon (85 min)
Get TicketNews of a half-constructed building full of crocodiles brings a Chinese woman to Phnom Penh. She walks along the Mekong River in search of a lost friend.
Director
Daphne Xu (Canada/China) is an artist and filmmaker who explores the politics and poetics of place. Her works unfurl from cities in flux, tracing the interior lives of women and diasporic subjects caught between displacement and belonging, erasure and myth. Xu moves between 16mm and digital formats, using the camera as an instrument for embodied improvisation and encounter. Her films have premiered at festivals and institutions including Toronto International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Visions du Réel, and Cinéma du Réel, where she won the Short Film Award in 2025. She is a MacDowell Fellow and Media City Chrysalis Fellow.
Credits
- DirectorDaphne XU
- Principal CastLAI Yuqing