Allison Chhorn is a Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist living on Kaurna Land (South Australia). Her work explores the effects of migrant displacement and post-memory through impressionistic forms, often with other family members as subjects.
She works between the intersections of cinema and installation where the darkened room illuminates fragments and impressions of familial history. By working between the gaps of knowledge and history left from the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge, she reimagines the threads of connection within her Cambodian heritage and diasporic identity. Through the practice of filming, photographing, listening and recording to her surroundings, the collected material over several years becomes both a professional archive and a tactile body of personal memory.
Since graduating with Honours in painting at UniSA in 2014, she has made numerous films and moving image work. She received the 2022 Porter St Commission from ACE Gallery. Her works have exhibited at MCA, New York Film Festival and Visions du Réel.
Contact: allison.chhorn[at]gmail[dot]com
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