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Dorothy Cheung (b. 1987) is a filmmaker and artist from Hong Kong. Her practice explores the notion of identities and home through a double perspective - personal and political, memory and forgetfulness. Her moving-image works are internationally exhibited in Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art) and EYE Filmmuseum, and selected for film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Leeds International Film Festival, Seoul Women’s Film Festival, South Taiwan Film Festival and Queer Lisboa. She has also received commission from M+ (Hong Kong), British Council (Hong Kong/UK), Jumping Frames Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival (Hong Kong) and Visual AIDS (US). 


Filmography


2023, Heart Murmurs, Hong Kong [Direction, Camera, Editing.]
- Commissioned for Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art, Dec 2023 
- Screened at Whitney Museum of American Art, US, Nov 2023
- Screened at Queens Museum, US, Dec 2023
- Screened at MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna, Austria, Dec 2023
- Screened at PUBLICS, Helsinki, Finland, Dec 2023
- Screened at Eaton HK [hosted by Videotage], Hong Kong, Dec 2023
- Screened at Mushaira 4.0, London, United Kingdom, Mar 2024
- Selected for Queer East Film Festival 2024, London, United Kingdom, Apr 2024

2023, Reverberation, Hong Kong [Direction, Screenplay, Editing.]
- Commissioned for M+ Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène initiative, Hong Kong, May 2023

2022, If I Can’t Dance, Hong Kong [Direction, Screenplay, Editing.]
- Commissioned for Jumping Frames - Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival 2022, Hong Kong, Sept 2022
- Selected for Bodies in Motion, Women in Film and Photography, Objectifs, Singapore, Sept 2023
- Selected for 15th Inshodow Lisbon Screendance Festival, Portugal, Nov 2023
- Screened at 2024 Chiayi International Art Doc Film Festival, Chiayi, Taiwan, Mar 2024
- Screened at Cinedans FEST '24 (Online Program), the Netherlands, Mar 2024

2020, Home, and a Distant Archive, the Netherlands/Hong Kong [Production, Direction, Screenplay, Camera, Editing.]
- Selected for 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Jan 2020
- Selected for Documentary Competition on Human Rights in 8th Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug 2020
- Screened at Singapore International Film Festival New Wave Programmme, Singapore, Oct 2020
- Selected for 34th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, Nov 2020
- Selected for 23rd Montreal International Documentary Festival, Canada, Nov 2020
- Selected for 10th Balneário Camboriú International Film Festival, Brazil, Nov 2020
- Selected for 15th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Indonesia, Nov 2020
- Selected for 26th ifva Awards Short Film Open Category finalist, Hong Kong, Mar 2021
- Screened at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, UK, Mar 2021
- Selected for International Competition in 9th Liberation DocFest 2021, Bangladesh, Apr 2021
- Selected for 12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taiwan, Apr 2021
- Selected for Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival 2021, Greece, Jun 2021
- Selected for Voices of the Ground Short Film Festival, Germany, Sept 2021

2019, A Room of Oblivion, the Netherlands/Hong Kong [Production, Screenplay, Direction, Camera, Editing.]
- Screened in EYE Filmmuseum Researchlab, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Feb 2019
- Selected for The Soft Screening, Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Apr 2019
- Exhibited in Queer Bodies, Korzo Theater, The Hauge, the Netherlands, Sept 2019
- Selected for 23rd Queer Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept 2019
- Selected for 35th Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival, Slovenia, Slovenia, Nov 2019
- Screened in Extra: Queer Landing by Mini Maxwell in International Queer & Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam, Dec 2019
- Selected for Spain Moving Images Festival 2020, Spain, Oct 2020
- Selected for Interface Video Art Festival 2020, Croatia, Dec 2020
- Selected for Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival 2021, Greece, Jun 2021
- Selected for 17th Queer Women of Color Film Festival, United States, Jun 2021
- Screened in Memory as Border/less, ge.stell, Taiwan, Nov 2021
- Screened in Remnants and Reflections, Women in Film and Photography, Objectifs, Singapore, Dec 2021
- Selected for Queer East Film Festival 2022, United Kingdom, May 2022
- Selected for 2022 non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taiwan, Jun 2022
- Selected for 2022 Bangalore Queer Film Festival, India, Jul 2022
- Exhibited in LOVE+ Awakenings, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, Nov 2022
- Screened at Imaginable Future - Hong Kong Short Film Programs, Yale, New Haven, US, Apr 2023
- Selected for Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, US, Apr 2023
- Exhibited at EXPO Raak, Transport Artspace, Maastricht, the Netherlands, May 2023

2018, Letter to the Outsider, The Netherlands/Hong Kong [Production, Screenplay, Direction, Camera, Editing.]
- Screened in EYE Filmmuseum Researchlab, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Feb 2018
- Selected for Asian Short Competition in 20th Seoul Women's Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea, May 2018
- Screened in Reflex Action, KINO Rotterdam, Jul 2018
- Selected for 11th FilmAid Film Festival, Nairobi, Kenya, Sept 2018
- Selected for 18th South Taiwan Film Festival, Tainan, Taiwan, Nov 2018
- Selected for 14th Early Bird Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov 2018
- Screened in International Queer and Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dec 2018
- Selected for 15th San Francisco International Queer Women of Color Film Festival,  San Francisco, United States, Jun 2019
- Selected for Hong Kong Independent Film Festival 2020, Hong Kong, Jan 2020
- Selected for 6th SF Urban Film Fest, San Francisco, United States, Feb 2020
- Selected for Voices of the Ground Short Film Festival, Germany, Sept 2021

2016, Pseudo Secular, Hong Kong [Screenplay Co-written with Rita Hui]
- Selected for Opening Film in South Taiwan Film Festival, Tainan, Taiwan, 2016
- Selected for ONDE in 34th Torino Film Festival, Torino, Italy, 2016
- Selected for Hong Kong Independent Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2017
- Selected for Taipei Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan,2017
- Selected for Singapore Chinese Film Festival, Singapore, 2018

Video Art


2022, an ode to transgression, Hong Kong
- Selected for Happiness programme, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, the Netherlands, Mar 2022

2021, Memory Palace, UK (Supported by British Council Hong Kong, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art and Phillips Auctioneers) 
- Screened at SPARK Festival, Hong Kong, Oct 2021
- Screened at Stories from the Periphery, bi’bak, Berlin, Germany, Mar 2022
- Selected for International Queer & Migrant Film Festival 2022, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Mar 2022
- Selected for Hong Kong Film Festival UK, London, UK, Mar 2023
- Screened at Longing for Something…, HK.kino.berlin, Brotfabrik Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Apr 2023 
- Exhibited at (Homing, or) Adverse Possession, Keepsake Project, London, UK, May 2023
- Screened at T A P E Presents: Bonded 2.0, London Short Film Festival 2024, London, UK, Jan 2024

2020, Our Night Skies, UK (Commissioned by Lumen Studio, funded by Arts Council England)
- Exhibited at Hebridean Dark Skies Festival, An Lanntair, Scotland, Feb 2021

2019, Three Colours, Spain [Co-directed with Beatriz Gijón Gijón] [Camera, Editing.]
- Exhibited at AADK Open Studio, Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, Blanca, Spain, Sept 2019
- Selected for Other Ways of Watching Together, MAMA Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Jan 2020
- Selected for competition in VII Festival Cinemística, Granada, Spain, Nov 2020

2018, Songs from Home, the Netherlands [Production, Direction, Camera, Editing.]
- Exhibited in Excavating Empathy, TENT, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Mar 2018
- Screened in Earthly Visions, Haiton Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Jul 2018
- Screened in MIASMA, Neverland Cinema, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Jan 2019
- Screened in Home is Wherever I’m with U, Enclave Lab, London, UK, Mar 2019


Exhibition


2019, The Second Umbrella, Chisenhale Art Place, London, UK
2019, Queer Bodies, Korzo Theater, The Hauge, the Netherlands
2019, Home is Wherever I’m with U, Enclave Lab, London, UK
2018, Howling Pancakes, MAMA Rotterdam. the Netherlands
2018, Excavating Empathy, TENT. the Netherlands
2017, Save_as EXPO#2: Fertilizing Impotent Gardens, DCR. the Netherlands
2017, Folding/Unfolding, JCCAC. Hong Kong
2017, Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs [Via The HK Farmers' Almanac], Para Site. Hong Kong
2017, The One and Only Gallerina, Haiton Art Center, Taipei,  Taiwan
2017, Emerging from the Rubble - Art/Activism against the Gentrification in East Asia [Via The HK Farmers' Almanac], Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, United States
2016, Photography as Method, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
2016, Reitir Symposium, Siglufjörður, Iceland
2016, Photo Matters: Book and Print Festival 2016, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
2016, Urban Orchard [Via The HK Farmers' Almanac], XXI Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2015, LAND VISIONS: In Search of Land Art in Hong Kong [Via The HK Farmers' Almanac], Comix Home Base, Hong Kong
2014, Grow in Yaumatei, Woofer Ten, Hong Kong

Spoken Word


2023, London/Londra [hosted by Undone Theatre], Queer Circle, London, UK
2019, Queer Poetry Nights #2 [hosted by Unwanted Words], Tender Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Residence


2020, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
2019, Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, Blanca, Spain
2016, Reitir, Siglufjörður, Iceland


Scholarship and Fellowship


2018, International Queer and Migrant Film Festival Academy
2017 - 2019, HKADC Overseas Arts Administration Scholarship


Publication


2023, “A Room of Oblivion”, O-Square #16: RE:, Hong Kong
2023, “Be Careful of What You Wish For”, London/Londra, London
2021, Things will work out tomorrow - A Growing Collection of StepBackForward Methodologies, Hong Kong
2021, “Simmered Egg”, Magiun #2 On Adapting, the Netherlands
2018, “My Suriname”, 別字 vol. 5, Hong Kong
2017, “The Opposite Side of the Sea”, 別字 vol. 1, Hong Kong
2016, "Magical City – A Tribute to the Ex", Fleurs des Lettres vol. 59, Hong Kong
2016, Reitir: Tools for Collaboration. Iceland
2016, Mis|túlka, Iceland
2015, A Kitchen of One’s Own, Herstory Polygon, Hong Kong
2015, The Gaze of Gardener [Via The HK Farmers' Almanac] , Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
2014, Seeds of Yaumatei, Yaumatei Gardener, Hong Kong
2013, "Where ist Home", zoll+, Austria
2010, "Night Walk", 41 Writers to be, Hong Kong
2009, "One Afternoon, We Walk in the Forest", Muse vol. 31, Hong Kong
©2024 Dorothy Cheung