Cooking with Steven (2009 and 2010)
Created by two Williams students, Cooking with Steven is a Chinese cooking television show for college students. It demonstrates how to make economical, healthy and authentic Chinese dishes that one can easily prepare in a typical dorm kitchen.
Read more...PSA for WilliNet TV (2009)
Created as a part of my ARTS 323 Live TV Production class, this short film is a public service announcement for the Williamstown Access Television (WilliNet).
Read more...Beyond the French Quarter (2008)
Beyond the French Quarter is a student production that captures the unconventional accounts of youth volunteers in New Orleans. Follow us beyond the cameras and tourists, as we try to find hope in the areas that still haunt of desolation three years after Hurricane Katrina.
Read more...Happy Birthday Trailer the Short Film (2008)
Originally intended to be a sequel to the original Happy Birthday, this short film was not completed because the filmmakers did not like the story after principal photography. Nonetheless, some of the scenes were edited into this trailer-like short film, while maintaining the solitude and serenity that permeates throughout the narrative as the protagonist experiences another birthday.
Read more...Happy Birthday (2007)
Yang Fan is having a bad day. His girlfriend dumps him on his birthday, and he is isolated by American college culture. But this birthday will be a special one; for he meets a stranger, an outgoing girl that seems to have only too many friends around, who shows him that he is not alone.
Official selection for NPAR 2008, as a part of the Annecy Animation Film Festival in France, under the title Yang Fan is Born.
Read more...Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey (2009)
A concert video for the Williams Student Symphony, featuring four cameras with one on the crane. This is the last piece of the concert, Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey ("Overture Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt"), composed by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and conducted by Teng Jian Khoo.
Read more...Next Station: Chinatown (2007)
An homage to Another Hundred People in Stephen Sondheim's Company, this documentary opens with two Chinese students first time in New York, dazzled by the streetlights, the subway and Time Square. The short film documents their journey through the crowd, as they made their way to Chinatown and explored a kind of Chineseness different from what they had expected.
Read more...Kite (2007)
"Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed of flying." This short film appropriates existing/found footage on YouTube and in various films, through which narrates a story of friendship and love as the filmmaker moved from Singapore to the United States.
Read more...Mr. Popular (2006)
How far does Web 2.0 shape public opinion? The short film illustrates that thanks to various Web 2.0 tools a mere innocuous act has snowballed into a crime that is totally unimaginable.
Read more...Apple vs Apple: A Documentary (2006)
This documentary looks beyond the technological revolution that iPods have brought and discusses Apple's appeal as the leader in the fashion world. The opening scene features a man peeling a banana.
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