2019, Master of Arts in Fine Art & Design: Lens-Based Media, Piet Zwart Institute, the Netherlands
2011, Master of Arts in Gender Studies, Hong Kong Chinese University, Hong Kong
2010, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Humanities (Creative and Professional Writing), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Selected Filmography
2025, as a bird that briefly perches, Hong Kong / UK [Direction, Camera, Editing.]
- Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland, May 2025
- Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at M+, Hong Kong, May 2025
- What the Doc! Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 2025
- Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2025, Hong Kong, Oct 2025
- 9th Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China, Nov 2025
- 20th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Indonesia, Dec 2025
- Visions in the Nunnery 2025, London, UK, Dec 2025
2023, Heart Murmurs, Hong Kong [Direction, Camera, Editing.]
- Whitney Museum of American Art, US, Nov 2023
- Queens Museum, US, Dec 2023
- MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna, Austria, Dec 2023
- PUBLICS, Helsinki, Finland, Dec 2023
- Eaton HK [hosted by Videotage], Hong Kong, Dec 2023
- Mushaira 4.0, Cafe OTO, London, United Kingdom, Mar 2024
- Queer East Film Festival 2024, London, United Kingdom, Apr 2024
- 18th XPOSED Queer Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, May 2024
- Queer Amsterdam - IQMF: Short Film Program, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jul 2024
- 14th Bangalore Queer Film Festival, India, Aug 2024
- Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest 2024, London, UK, Sept 2024
- Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2024, Glasgow, Oct 2024
- Beijing Queer Film Festival, Beijing, China, Nov 2024
- Day With(out) Art: Asia Focus, MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, South Korea, Nov 2024
- Silence Will Not Protect You with Queer East, esea contemporary, UK, Nov 2024
- Rotterdams Open Doek Film Festival, the Netherlands, Jun 2025
- Queer Vision, Bristol, UK, Jul 2025
- Queersicht LGBTIAQ+ Film Festival, Bern, Switzerland, Nov 2025
- Queer Shorts Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Mar 2026
2023, Reverberation / Lost and Found, Hong Kong [Direction, Screenplay, Editing.]
- Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène, M+, Hong Kong, May 2023
- Hong Kong - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, M+, Hong Kong, June 2024
2022, If I Can’t Dance, Hong Kong [Direction, Screenplay, Editing.]
- Jumping Frames - Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival 2022, Hong Kong, Sept 2022
- Bodies in Motion, Women in Film and Photography, Objectifs, Singapore, Sept 2023
- 15th Inshodow Lisbon Screendance Festival, Portugal, Nov 2023
- 2024 Chiayi International Art Doc Film Festival, Chiayi, Taiwan, Mar 2024
- Cinedans FEST '24 (Online Program), the Netherlands, Mar 2024
- Taiwan Dance Platform 2024, Kaohsiung, Nov 2024
- 9th Busan Inter-City Film Festival, Busan, South Korea, Aug 2025
2020, Home, and a Distant Archive, the Netherlands/Hong Kong [Production, Direction, Screenplay, Camera, Editing.]
- 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Jan 2020
- Documentary Competition on Human Rights, 8th Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug 2020
- Singapore International Film Festival New Wave Programme, Singapore, Oct 2020
- 34th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, Nov 2020
- 23rd Montreal International Documentary Festival, Canada, Nov 2020
- 10th Balneário Camboriú International Film Festival, Brazil, Nov 2020
- 15th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Indonesia, Nov 2020
- 26th ifva Awards Short Film Open Category finalist, Hong Kong, Mar 2021
- Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, UK, Mar 2021
- International Competition, 9th Liberation DocFest 2021, Bangladesh, Apr 2021
- 12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taiwan, Apr 2021
- Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival 2021, Greece, Jun 2021
- Voices of the Ground Short Film Festival, Germany, Sept 2021
2019, A Room of Oblivion, the Netherlands/Hong Kong [Production, Screenplay, Direction, Camera, Editing.]
- EYE Filmmuseum Researchlab, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Feb 2019
- The Soft Screening, Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Apr 2019
- 23rd Queer Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept 2019
- 35th Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival, Slovenia, Nov 2019
- International Queer & Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam, Dec 2019
- Spain Moving Images Festival 2020, Spain, Oct 2020
- Interface Video Art Festival 2020, Croatia, Dec 2020
- Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival 2021, Greece, Jun 2021
- 17th Queer Women of Color Film Festival, United States, Jun 2021
- Memory as Border/less, ge.stell, Taiwan, Nov 2021
- Remnants and Reflections, Women in Film and Photography, Objectifs, Singapore, Dec 2021
- Queer East Film Festival 2022, UK, May 2022
- non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taiwan, Jun 2022
- Bangalore Queer Film Festival, India, Jul 2022
- Imaginable Future - Hong Kong Short Film Programs, Yale, New Haven, US, Apr 2023
- Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, US, Apr 2023
2018, Letter to the Outsider, The Netherlands/Hong Kong [Production, Screenplay, Direction, Camera, Editing.]
- EYE Filmmuseum Researchlab, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Feb 2018
- Asian Short Competition, 20th Seoul International Women's Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea, May 2018
- Reflex Action, KINO Rotterdam, Jul 2018
- 11th FilmAid Film Festival, Nairobi, Kenya, Sept 2018
- 18th South Taiwan Film Festival, Tainan, Taiwan, Nov 2018
- 14th Early Bird Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov 2018
- International Queer and Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dec 2018
- 15th San Francisco International Queer Women of Color Film Festival, San Francisco, United States, Jun 2019
- Hong Kong Independent Film Festival 2020, Hong Kong, Jan 2020
- 6th SF Urban Film Fest, San Francisco, United States, Feb 2020
Selected Video Art
2024, dreaming in another language, UK
- Disidentification Screening, Atlas Cinema, London, UK, Sept 2024
- 39 Footnotes Screening Programme, Accent Sisters, New York, US, Mar 2025
- Floating Images, Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2025
2023, Be Careful (of what you wish), Hong Kong/ UK
- London/Londra, Queer Circle, London, UK, Jan 2023
2022, an ode to transgression, Hong Kong
- Happiness Programme, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, the Netherlands, Mar 2022
2021, Memory Palace, UK
- SPARK Festival, Hong Kong, Oct 2021
- Stories from the Periphery, bi’bak, Berlin, Germany, Mar 2022
- International Queer & Migrant Film Festival 2022, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Mar 2022
- Hong Kong Film Festival UK, London, UK, Mar 2023
- Longing for Something…, HK.kino.berlin, Brotfabrik Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Apr 2023
- London Short Film Festival 2024, London, UK, Jan 2024
Selected Exhibitions
2025, 2570 Revolutions Around the Earth, CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo Venice, Italy
2024, Gone with the Wind, Canton-sardine, Vancouver, Canada
2024, Nature: A Perception, HART Haus, Hong Kong
2023, (Homing, or) Adverse Possession, Keepsake Project, London, UK
2022, LOVE+ Awakenings, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2019, The Second Umbrella, Chisenhale Art Place, London, UK
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, Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs [Via The HK Farmers' Almanac], Para Site, Hong Kong
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, 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
Commissions
2023, Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS, US
2023, M+, Hong Kong
2022, Jumping Frames - Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival, Hong Kong
Residences and Labs
2020, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK [supported by British Council Hong Kong, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, and Phillips Auctioneers]
2019, Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, Blanca, Spain
2018, International Queer and Migrant Film Festival Academy, the Netherlands
2016, Reitir, Siglufjörður, Iceland
Awards and Fellowships
2025, Grand Prize of Documentary by Women Directors, What the Doc! Film Festival, Thailand
2021, Special Mention, International Competition, Liberation DocFest, Bangladesh
2017, HKADC Overseas Arts Administration Scholarship, Hong Kong
Misc
2025, Bow Skill Workshop, Bow Arts, London, UK
2025, Conversation on Lolita, O-Square 2025 Spring Issue
2024, Co-editor, Images: Perspectives
2023, Jury for the documentary competition, Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival, Greece
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
Selected Publications and Zines
2023, “A Room of Oblivion”, O-Square #16: RE:, Hong Kong
2023, “Be Careful of What You Wish For”, London/Londra, London
2021, “Untitled”, 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
2013, "Where ist Home", zoll+, Austria
©2026 Dorothy Cheung