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Allison Chhorn
ABOUT

NEWS / FORTHCOMING

INSTALLATION Disintegrate/Regenerate
Reflections in the Water
Skin Shade Night Day

FILM
Lost in the Water
Blind Body
Missing
The Plastic House
Last Time
Unslept

MOVING IMAGE Dissolve the Walls
Close Ups

PHOTOS
Memory House
Sleepwalking under
a Plastic Sky
Plastic & Ashes

PAINTING
Perspectives
 Before & After
Viewfinders

COLLABORATION
Shades of Night

PUBLICATIONS
Artist Book
Cassette



Lost in the Water (2025)


Super 8, 5.1, Colour & BNW, 12 mins, Khmer & English subtitles



Fragments of recreated archival footage depicts daily life along the Mekong River in the countryside of Cambodia. Cooking, planting rice, children at school and crossing the river is captured on Super 8, yet the fictional time period is unknown. An imagined flash flood submerges everything. “Where is the old house? Do you go through here?” A voice repeats over and over again. All is not lost as water drops ripple open portals of memories that reemerge from the depths of the river.




Credits

Cinematography: Allison Chhorn, Bryce Kraehenbuehl
Hand developed by: Bryce Kraehenbuehl
Producer: Chris Luscri
Editor: Allison Chhorn
Sound design & mix: Josh Peters
Colourist: Nicholas Hower

Thanks to family and friends in Cambodia, Lyno Vuth, Nicholas Godfrey, Anastasia Comelli

Supported by Outer Space gallery, Magandjin (Brisbane), Create SA and Nexus Arts

Produced on Kaurna Land (South Australia)
Filmed on location in Cambodia