My Asian Americana (2011) TRT 3:00

“A group of Asian Americans show up in Phnom Penh Cambodia to share favorite memories of their Americana.” Depicting diasporic Cambodians in Phnom Penh, the video deals with Cambodian American deportees who cannot return to America and the ironies of freedom.

Studio Revolt (Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano)
Return to Sender (2012) TRT 8:00

A follow up to My Asian Americana, this video letter sent to President Obama and the US government by Khmer Exiled Americans (K.E.A.s).

“Many of the deportees, whom we began to call "exiles", were living respectable lives after their incarceration, having their own business, going to school, starting their own family. And one day, I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) would come pick them up, detain them in some cases up to 2-3 years without any charge or trial, and send them back to their supposed homeland, like Cambodia, leaving wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, and their young children in utter financial and psychological devastation. Often theseK.E.A.s (Khmer Exiled Americans) had never seen Cambodia until they were escorted off the airplane by the agents at the Phnom Penh International Airport.

Please ask the White House why they try to silence this issue in manners that do nothonor democracy.”—Studio Revolt

the great simplicity thousands of years before and after (2011-2012) 2-channel video

Tiffany Chung’s video diptych filmed in Japan is a musing on the future ruins of today’s civilization, the human race morphed into nomads forever roaming, caught in between language and longing.

“This project is an allegorical fantasy that imagines our world at the end of the human race. At the collapse of modern society lay our future ruins. In this post-apocalyptic landscape a small group of mixed-race humans wander, searching for a dwelling place and means of surviving. In the meanwhile, animals once thought to be extinct have reclaimed the lands where human ruins are. The end of humankind is similar to its beginning – no sophisticatedtechnology, just twigs, bones and rocks as tools.” (artist statement)

Capsized (2008) TRT 3:33

“Capsized imagines a Queer narrative of US-Vietnamese relations in an undetermined time. In figuring the two countries as women, the relationship between the two transforms from a socio-politcal context into the complexity of human contact, engagement and relationships. I am interested in exploring aspects of power, gender, class, race, and nationality and how they operate in subtle ways in interpersonal relationships. The water becomes as a liminal space, a borderland, where these notions of identity and relationships can be explored, shaped and formed.

“Nu’o’c” which means water, country and homeland in Vietnamese further implicates the relationship to country and homeland. I am interested in the questions raised by the negotiation between of desire and reality, dependence and independence in relationships, whether between nations or between people.” (artist statement)