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Obsession-related thrillers are usually erotic, but Law of Attraction is not. With a tender, feminine viewpoint, it explores the LGBTQ+ experience of extreme possessiveness via an experimental surrealist lens. It attempts to keep the lurking sensuality while breaking away from the traditional male gaze. Female attraction is intriguingly ambiguous: is it a maternal desire to possess someone, or is it love?

The film centers on Eman, a girl who employs manifestation to garner her attention after harboring a secret attraction to her classmate, Rowan. Rowan passed just as Eman realized she had a remarkable gift for manifesting. This traps her in a contradictory cycle of remorse and assurance: does she truly love Rowan, or is her goal to possess her—dead or alive—all she wants? The narrative makes the point that women can be attracted to one another in a way that is both kind and firm.

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This award-winning film is a 2-year project that follows the life of "BuKaoPu," a band composed entirely of musicians with visual impairments. As I filmed this project, my role as a director/ photographer blurs as we slowly bond a friendship and spend more time together: the film itself is a testimony of our collaborative attempt to speak up for underrepresented voices. Interviews reveal how they work together to face personal hardships, social obstacles, and the harsh realities of life while maintaining solidarity. This movie presents them as musicians. Not with the word “blind” attached to it.

Sound Beyond Sight will take viewers deep inside a revolutionary era and on a wild trip of disabled artists; a ride from infantilization to freedom - the trip of a lifetime.

Award Winner, Best Young Artist, Toronto Women's Film Festival (Filmfreeway Gold Label)

Official Selection, National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2025

Semi-finalist, Luleå International Film Festival 2025 (Gold Label Festival)

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The film has an all-female crew, coming from non-English speaking countries: Albania, China, France, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia... The crew wanted to embody some of our own encountered problems of mother-daughter estrangement, LGBTQ+ youth homelessness caused by coming-out family rejection, and the identity fractures faced by children from bilingual immigrant families. It poses questions about how cultural expectations, generational divides, and the immigrant experience compound the risks queer youth face, especially when “home” becomes conditional upon conformity.

The film centers on a single phone call. A lesbian girl, kicked out of her home after coming out to her mother on her 17th birthday, makes her 356th attempt to call her. Today is her 18th birthday, and its the first time her mother picks up. She tries to hide the history of tension, slipping between languages, but the veiled scar leaks through. Her voice trembles as she admits, “You are acting so small, but you are so big in my head, why can’t you act like that?” The silence that follows is broken only by the click of the call ending.

Official Selection, Our Pride LGBTQ Shorts & Arts Festival 2026

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Shot in the Widner Library of Harvard University, this film embodies a dystopian world where a girl wakes up and is stuck in a different genre of video game every day... Sometimes sports games, other times life simulation. What if it is a shooting action? Our main character goes through an Inferno of sensations and finally steps into a form of desensitization.

At its core, the film interrogates two interconnected ideas: fragmentation of Identity – the self can be molded (or erased) when forced to adapt to ever-changing cultural systems and the politics of video games – “play” in its gamified form becomes a site of both liberation and coercion, where enjoyment is inextricably linked to self-control and the capacity to distinguish between real life and virtual simulation.

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This film is a found footage combining clips from one of my trips to an aquarium and the commencement speech from David Foster Wallace, This Is Water. This experimental piece is a proof of intertextuality of audio-visual resources: it is as if the marine animals are the human beings that Wallace addresses: they are breaking the self-centeredness of life -- the ecosystem of animals is interdependent as one species builds on one another.

Watching these animals reminds us to be aware of daily life – noticing the small, ordinary moments and finding meaning through them. This is because not only the animals, but also we humans, have agency to choose how to think about and react to situations.

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This film is a visualization of the process of writing poetry. The clips and pictures are what flow through one's mind when they create and listen to the poetry. It critiques how commercialism has eroded the rebellious, anti-bourgeois spirit that originally fueled rock music. It contrasts the raw urgency of punk and street-level rock—graffiti, smoke, and guitars—with the superficial world of self-proclaimed rock stars who commercialize and sanitize the culture. The speaker mourns the loss of authenticity and the transformative power rock once held, portraying the commercial music scene as a “still life of a corpse,” and warns that the spirit of resistance and humanity’s pause that rock once demanded.