Film – dissonance productions

Look, I Bled, a Japanese Flag

Finds commonality and critique in Shintoism and tourism in their ritualized behaviours, "right" order of doing things, and their performative role as superficial markers of being a "better" person. The…

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2021 Film Generative / Interactive Music

Tan-Ka

TAN-KA plays on TAN (dialect pronunciation of Chen - Stephen's last name) and KA (Egyptian hieroglyph depicting "soul" or "spirit" of a person that survives the death of the body)…

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2020 Events / Performance Film

Co-videos

Capturing the zeitgeist of performance and mediation in isolation for each month in quarantine utilizing consumer webcams for motion capture; bringing together COVID anxiety, social media singing, quarantine, and animals…

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2017 Film Installation / Site Music Writing

Gone Dyke

GONE DYKE is a multi modal work of performance/poetry/music/photography/video that explores the queer in landscape, and the queer as landscape via the Klondike Gold Rush. At its core is an…

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2017 Film

Freudian Lip

While researching and putting together

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2016 Events / Performance Film

Ballads 5 & 7

An anagram of "all bad", BALLAD is a series of short pieces that reflect on our fractured existence, trapped by contemporary circumstances. Continuing the socio-political aspect of

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2015 Film Music

Psalms 63 & 69

In response to the "religious liberty" laws and in the grand tradition of the Christian zealots misquoting scripture to justify LGBT discrimination, Stephen Chen takes a leaf from their bible…

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2015 Film Music Visual / Photography

STILLE STADT

STILLE STADT (trans. Silent City) is an experimental feature which depicts the state of contemporary urbanity through an Everyman on the verge of a mid-life crisis, who goes through his…

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2015 Film

CONTENTUS

CONTENTUS takes its cue from the meanings of the (latin) word - to strain with exertion, to hold together; in which three parallel stories intersect in a contemporary allegory of…

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2015 Film

A MOOR

A MOOR – (or a “room” inverted) synthesizes the multiple meanings of securing, uncultivated land, and an ethnic population in its portraits of Caucasian sex tourists who blur into one another…

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2015 Film

BLISSED

BLISSED – (or “Bless Id”) continues the racial dynamics of A MOOR via the unspoken issue of LGBT domestic violence as allegory. Drawing inspiration from the claustrophobic tensions of Tennessee…

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2015 Film

IN DIFFERENCE

IN DIFFERENCE picks up the yearning for liberation of BLISSED in its exploration of its homophynic meanings of apathy and divergence. A conversation between a young banker with an older…

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