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Epiphyte

Through the gaze of an indifferent landscape, Epiphyte probes at nature's disregard for manmade binaries: genders, spaces, and being. Scored by Singapore-based experimental musicians SAtheCollective, this film reveals possibilities of co-existence between the human and the more-than-human.

  • Sze-Wei Chan
    Director
  • Jereh Leung
    Key Cast
  • Felicia Lim
    Key Cast
  • Colleen Coy
    Key Cast
  • Wan Ping Looi
    Director of Photography
  • Sze-Wei Chan
    Editor
  • Natalie Alexandra Tse
    Composer
  • Thirdsound - SAtheCollective
    Musicians
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Dance, Environment
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 18, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Singapore
  • Country of Filming:
    Singapore, Taiwan
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Sze-Wei Chan

Sze is a movement-based artist who creates for the stage and screen. Their practice is grounded a somatic approach focused on perception, sensation and the organic knowledge of the human body, in connection with the politics of the body.

Their dance films have screened at festivals including Danca em Foco (Rio de Janeiro), London International Screendance Festival, Screen.dance Scotland, The Outlet Dance Film Festival (New Jersey), Singapore International Festival of the Arts, as a semi-finalist for ‘la danza en 1 minuto’ (Torino) 2019, as well as on Hong Kong TV 116 for a 2020 selection by Jumping Frames Dance Festival. They are currently working on their first feature film, a dance documentary on the underground ballroom scene in Southeast Asia.

Sze holds a Diploma in Dance from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and an M.A. in Contemporary Dance from London Contemporary Dance School, and is a member of the Cinemovement collective and an Associate Member of Dance Nucleus Singapore (2018- 2020).

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