During my senior year of college, I enrolled in a course called "East Asian Cinema" that became the best class I experienced at Harvard College.
Every week, we studied a different genre of film, from action to mystery to comedy, watching the movies, examining the directors and stories, and analyzing how they represented the zeitgeist.
Our weekly assignment included producing, writing, and editing our own original shorts in teams, following the style of the genre, while adding contemporary twists.
These shorts and trailers represent my first foray into filmmaking. Our final culminated in a ten-minute-long production that my team and I wrote, produced, filmed, and edited in a one-week period.
I hope you enjoy these pieces inspired by iconic East Asian directors like Ang Lee and Wang Kar-wai that formed the foundation for my love of independent projects.
See if you can guess which directors / films inspired which shorts!
Every week, we studied a different genre of film, from action to mystery to comedy, watching the movies, examining the directors and stories, and analyzing how they represented the zeitgeist.
Our weekly assignment included producing, writing, and editing our own original shorts in teams, following the style of the genre, while adding contemporary twists.
These shorts and trailers represent my first foray into filmmaking. Our final culminated in a ten-minute-long production that my team and I wrote, produced, filmed, and edited in a one-week period.
I hope you enjoy these pieces inspired by iconic East Asian directors like Ang Lee and Wang Kar-wai that formed the foundation for my love of independent projects.
See if you can guess which directors / films inspired which shorts!
kung fu twins
Two twins are born. One destined to destroy the world; one destined to save it. Who will win in this battle between good versus evil?
a love to remember
Two lovers face the inevitable obstacles that threaten to erode their relationship: time, circumstance, and distance.
lonely valentine's
Two students spend Valentine's Day alone. A twist of fate brings them together unexpectedly.
alone in the stacks
A Sisyphean tale. Do we live to study or study to live?
hunt of darkness
S.H.E. is the new SHE-RLOCK HOLMES.
somebody that i used to know
A story of how we use food to heal our hearts, nurture our souls, and nourish our spirits.
trailer for detective s & the legend of the secret scroll
The trailer: Detective S has to act fast when her favorite professor vanishes. She unravels a mystery far deeper than one she would imagine.
detective s & the legend of the secret scroll
The whole short: Detective S has to act fast when her favorite professor vanishes. She unravels a mystery far deeper than one she would imagine. An exploration of the intractably binary yin-yangs of our personalities.
