https://allisonchhorn.com Allison Chhorn Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:31:36 +0000 https://allisonchhorn.com en https://allisonchhorn.com/Allison-Chhorn Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:37:34 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Allison-Chhorn <img width="6141" height="9200" width_o="6141" height_o="9200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04f512287597b879b232c35d22bed72af33f093940e77ec09a8dc30fa423e4d8/2013-03-17_03_edit1_web.jpg" data-mid="151452633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04f512287597b879b232c35d22bed72af33f093940e77ec09a8dc30fa423e4d8/2013-03-17_03_edit1_web.jpg" /> All projects below https://allisonchhorn.com/Fruit-Tree-Sun Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:31:36 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Fruit-Tree-Sun <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86245c9a4ee2543ff853cecf9f1307910619e8ef89363261262b3f767ca76636/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01042.jpg" data-mid="247374250" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86245c9a4ee2543ff853cecf9f1307910619e8ef89363261262b3f767ca76636/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01042.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3249f5b7977e8390c38f6e26ca58c99d5d21bf7cf7de7d901a0bdb3bd2fae11d/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01062.jpg" data-mid="247374253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3249f5b7977e8390c38f6e26ca58c99d5d21bf7cf7de7d901a0bdb3bd2fae11d/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01062.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89e8082712a84609a3e9479899e61e317a89c5f7594edc2f95b4877cdf9e9068/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01057.jpg" data-mid="247374251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89e8082712a84609a3e9479899e61e317a89c5f7594edc2f95b4877cdf9e9068/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01057.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9709ec16a71913f23b0cd6d6c3aaad60b7c58326f251847a34f9b8119b22ce8c/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01061.jpg" data-mid="247374252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9709ec16a71913f23b0cd6d6c3aaad60b7c58326f251847a34f9b8119b22ce8c/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01061.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f779b6f829cced3ca54ec379b88a2ed910389ff89ccee4411e8e4aef3552f5ef/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01069.jpg" data-mid="247374254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f779b6f829cced3ca54ec379b88a2ed910389ff89ccee4411e8e4aef3552f5ef/FruitTreeSun_LanaAdams_web-01069.jpg" /> Fruit Tree Sun (2026) “Fruit Tree Sun”, 2026, Super 8 film, surround sound, 15mins loop, tea-dyed muslin. Exhibited at Nexus Arts Gallery, Adelaide (Tarntanya), 5 March - 10 April, 2026. Fruit Tree Sun continues Allison Chhorn’s interdisciplinary practice of filmmaking, gardening and observing the natural cycles of life around the family home and garden. The garden is the studio—a place for growing plants and intergenerational family members to be nurtured by daily rituals. Captured over changing seasons on Super 8 film, the personal archive is projected onto leftover tea-dyed muslin reminiscent of dried plants. These ghost-like hanging pieces become fragments of memories. Tactile and atmospheric, the installation reveals multiple timelines of different stages of life overlapping visually, sonically and temporally. Preservation turns into inevitable decay and circles back again to new growth. Photo Documentation: Lana AdamsVideo Documentation: Performer - Jazmine Deng; Assistance - Alyssa Powell-Ascura Exhibition Text by Alyssa Powell-Ascura. Thanks to:Alyssa Powell-Ascura Shivanjani Lal - mentorChira Grasby - Nexus&nbsp;ArtsBryce Kraehenbuehl Adam C. Briggs Alex Nguyen Anastasia Comelli Public Program: Fruit Tea Workshop curated with Alyssa Powell-Ascura <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f9caaa0df1a7c194c9b593331d1a70728d054db994faebb513b03ac01b85025/FTS_publicprogram_10APR2026-10.jpg" data-mid="251345944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f9caaa0df1a7c194c9b593331d1a70728d054db994faebb513b03ac01b85025/FTS_publicprogram_10APR2026-10.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf34dd83e4e305c98c7c6b165e0dd4ff9310d574fae3d788127d5a76d5e99226/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC74.JPG" data-mid="251345942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf34dd83e4e305c98c7c6b165e0dd4ff9310d574fae3d788127d5a76d5e99226/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC74.JPG" /><img width="3456" height="4608" width_o="3456" height_o="4608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3684dec482bf0eabaf45aee53de9dc2c434b2fad4277b7ec4a4624201c24e8e0/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC29.JPG" data-mid="251345936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3684dec482bf0eabaf45aee53de9dc2c434b2fad4277b7ec4a4624201c24e8e0/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC29.JPG" /><img width="3456" height="4608" width_o="3456" height_o="4608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9c1071d54d6735e6b0787098640c361fffbf0fcd6745e99e89e3ae212f87668/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC28.JPG" data-mid="251345974" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9c1071d54d6735e6b0787098640c361fffbf0fcd6745e99e89e3ae212f87668/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC28.JPG" /><img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8e9363fa7b02a4e82a5c74f6459badad78c44b1fb500b263be5b9e6dfe193ad/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC53.JPG" data-mid="251345975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8e9363fa7b02a4e82a5c74f6459badad78c44b1fb500b263be5b9e6dfe193ad/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC53.JPG" /><img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d97c063397cc8e187b4f5112c702adac077ab6d33ead3a9b1056ef47456cb349/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC59.JPG" data-mid="251345940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d97c063397cc8e187b4f5112c702adac077ab6d33ead3a9b1056ef47456cb349/FTS_April-10-2026_APA-AC59.JPG" /> https://allisonchhorn.com/Disintegrate-Regenerate Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:54:23 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Disintegrate-Regenerate <img width="1200" height="1920" width_o="1200" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15a0c5b9e5f2c138a6828b8777b2e2fe51355f6db308f94a0eccb2f689e53bb3/Bathurst_2k_vertical_HR_2025.06.27.00_02_38_03.Still002.jpg" data-mid="239220383" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15a0c5b9e5f2c138a6828b8777b2e2fe51355f6db308f94a0eccb2f689e53bb3/Bathurst_2k_vertical_HR_2025.06.27.00_02_38_03.Still002.jpg" /> Disintegrate/Regenerate (‘Memory House’ revisited) 2013/2025 Single-channel video, 12 mins, 35mm black and white photographs, sheer linen Exhibited 19 Sept - 9 Nov at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery as part of ‘A Tear in the Fabric’ curated by Con Gerakaris at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Produced by Chris Luscri. Produced on Kaurna Land. “The process of disintegration is often gradual - a slow, fibrous crumbling into decay and dust. This physical and conceptual phenomenon is core to the of Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and artist Allison Chhorn as she examines the challenging and knotty relationship between place and memory. In Disintegrate/Regenerate (‘Memory House’ Revisited) (2025), Chhorn engages with her personal archive of still and moving images, reinterpreting the photographic series Memory House (2022) through the examination of material and visual degradation, housed in a ghostly, floating installation. Built around a collection of 35mm black and white photographs taken between 2012 and 2013, Memory House documents the artist’s life and experience working on her family’s market garden on the outskirts of Adelaide. The series served as a study for Chhorn’s doc-fiction film The Plastic House (2019), a haunting piece about grief and the passage of time anchored to memories tied to location. For this exhibition, the artist coalesces the diverse strands of her practice into a new installation exploring the relationship between reproductive disintegration and recollective memory. As time passes and people change, the clarity of a memory obscures into evocative symbols, analogous to Chhorn’s material treatment of transposing film photography into a digital medium and again back into a new object through projection. With Disintegrate/Regenerate (‘Memory House’ Revisited) Chhorn poses a subtle provocation: With every reproduction, as the image disintegrates, does it also generate something new?” - Con Gerakaris https://allisonchhorn.com/Reflections-in-the-Water Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:22:03 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Reflections-in-the-Water <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ee96e0dced896b8439de9ae9df73b9a7f36ebedc57e0b1bcd34ce940656b615/Outerspace-20250811-LR-3.jpg" data-mid="237054613" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ee96e0dced896b8439de9ae9df73b9a7f36ebedc57e0b1bcd34ce940656b615/Outerspace-20250811-LR-3.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a86120d4921345869e7eeec0b03b14c72c3a397018c5b81ae16cdf42d062567e/Outerspace-20250811-LR-30.jpg" data-mid="237054610" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a86120d4921345869e7eeec0b03b14c72c3a397018c5b81ae16cdf42d062567e/Outerspace-20250811-LR-30.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f18c2e5327108f3605db0a22de25afb78728623136f964a710cc75e45084f49/Outerspace-20250811-LR-12.jpg" data-mid="237054612" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f18c2e5327108f3605db0a22de25afb78728623136f964a710cc75e45084f49/Outerspace-20250811-LR-12.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1b57eea30cf660e6c013fc5cf133e5593c8885f2e4b505eb7a845d154c50571/Outerspace-20250811-LR-38.jpg" data-mid="237054608" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1b57eea30cf660e6c013fc5cf133e5593c8885f2e4b505eb7a845d154c50571/Outerspace-20250811-LR-38.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d35494270ca6d0ad41b76d8c5c34f1e2ec833a0c5875cae80b84b4b102eb674/Outerspace-20250811-LR-49.jpg" data-mid="237054606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d35494270ca6d0ad41b76d8c5c34f1e2ec833a0c5875cae80b84b4b102eb674/Outerspace-20250811-LR-49.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36374b88414e32d09ff102c1d519e5159cf3e1de7f45d6e17b41ae222a8ce532/Outerspace-20250811-LR-36.jpg" data-mid="237054607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36374b88414e32d09ff102c1d519e5159cf3e1de7f45d6e17b41ae222a8ce532/Outerspace-20250811-LR-36.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad0f5ee06f2c138eb81f76698590b775da7f43fd338568120b6e608e873f5c1a/Outerspace-20250811-LR-6.jpg" data-mid="237054605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad0f5ee06f2c138eb81f76698590b775da7f43fd338568120b6e608e873f5c1a/Outerspace-20250811-LR-6.jpg" /> Reflections in the Water (2025)Single-channel video, 4-channel audio, 15min loop, Tea-dyed muslin.Exhibited at Outer Space, Magandjin (Brisbane), 8 August - 6 September, 2025. Reflections in the Water explores the intergenerational process of remembering through fragments of recreated archival material depicting the Cambodian countryside along the Mekong River. The immersive installation becomes a water sanctuary, highlighting the equally healing and destructive nature of this essential element in the tropical climate of Cambodia. Through recreated fragments of archival material, Chhorn invites viewers into an ephemeral meditation on memory, loss, and cultural continuity. In her hauntingly poetic reimagining, the ghost of her great-grandparents' Cambodian riverside house, now vanished due to the Mekong’s relentless erosion, becomes a vessel for reflecting on lives once lived. Using docu-fictional techniques and Super 8-style footage, she stitches together vignettes of rural existence, rice planting, coconut cutting, communal cooking, each scene vivid yet incomplete, like memory itself. A floating house, crafted from tea-stained muslin, evokes both the murky floodwaters and the fragility of tradition. The duality of water in the tropical climate of Cambodia, essential for everyday living but equally destructive with flash flooding, speaks to the value of traditional living, the potential of a lost culture and the importance of intergenerational memory.&nbsp; - O.S. Exhibition text: Over the river, from a few lifetimes away by Nikki Lam&nbsp; Producer: Chris Luscri Additional Super 8 Cinematography &amp; Hand Development: Bryce Kraehenbuehl Sound Design &amp; Mix: Josh Peters Studio Assistant: Lucinda Corin Seamstress: Isobel Davies Thank you family and friends in Cambodia, Lyno Vuth, Nicholas Godfrey, Carmela Luscri, Anastasia Comelli and Pantelis Georgiadas Photography: Outer Space Gallery Exhibition View. Photographed by Louis Lim. Courtesy of Outer Space. Supported by Create SA and Nexus Arts https://allisonchhorn.com/Skin-Shade-Night-Day Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:22:05 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Skin-Shade-Night-Day <img width="7770" height="5183" width_o="7770" height_o="5183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d98b8f6e7ee5bd8376976e16e421fca14af94c306eeb1ff7f1059752563d8705/004_The_National_MCA_2023_credit_AnnaKucera_edit.jpg" data-mid="177090736" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d98b8f6e7ee5bd8376976e16e421fca14af94c306eeb1ff7f1059752563d8705/004_The_National_MCA_2023_credit_AnnaKucera_edit.jpg" /><img width="7876" height="5253" width_o="7876" height_o="5253" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d85c7fcb099648d970e876aadb4fb21ef71efc6d53148097f323eb69ef0098b/002_The_National_MCA_2023_credit_AnnaKucera.jpg" data-mid="177090737" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d85c7fcb099648d970e876aadb4fb21ef71efc6d53148097f323eb69ef0098b/002_The_National_MCA_2023_credit_AnnaKucera.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/883a05036574e218409f958f22a3b9097734cfda9d8ce87a10a32a0eae6899e3/2023NAT4MCA_076.jpg" data-mid="177090779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/883a05036574e218409f958f22a3b9097734cfda9d8ce87a10a32a0eae6899e3/2023NAT4MCA_076.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="2833" width_o="4000" height_o="2833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5ba0469eaab12bccc5c75b0020241054cc7149ade9a15cfffc214cee99f62ae/2023NAT4MCA_079.jpg" data-mid="177090777" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5ba0469eaab12bccc5c75b0020241054cc7149ade9a15cfffc214cee99f62ae/2023NAT4MCA_079.jpg" /><img width="8128" height="5421" width_o="8128" height_o="5421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a778abc07774f13b3b76b4c683640215670acdc64fbd4679ec3b5e3e4cec8bcc/007_The_National_MCA_2023_credit_AnnaKucera.jpg" data-mid="177090739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a778abc07774f13b3b76b4c683640215670acdc64fbd4679ec3b5e3e4cec8bcc/007_The_National_MCA_2023_credit_AnnaKucera.jpg" /> Skin Shade Night Day (2022) Porter Street Commission at ACE Gallery, Adelaide, Australia Supported by the Government of South Australia (Arts SA) 4-channel video and 12-channel sound installation with shade cloth, rope, fishing wire and coconut coir, 45 minutes Curator: Patrice Sharkey Producers: Chris Luscri, Anastasia Comelli Sound mix &amp; spatialisation: Josh Peters Colourist: Niklas Malkin Photography: installation view, The National 4: Australian Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2023, photograph: Jenni Carter, Anna Kučera&nbsp; Video Documentation: Ben Golotta Skin Shade Night Day explores the daily routine and rituals practised by the artist’s Cambodian-Australian family, which are reperformed and documented through a process of embodied empathy. Acts of service, such as gardening and cooking, play out as echoes from the past across a sound and image installation displayed in a shadehouse. Spectres, shadows and aural textures conjure up impressions of a place that remembers how its inhabitants once lived. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b684ad10d3e76c0697a0f2d022d0937b65b3962680e71cafd48e17982ba8b0d/IMG_8798.JPG" data-mid="145187750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b684ad10d3e76c0697a0f2d022d0937b65b3962680e71cafd48e17982ba8b0d/IMG_8798.JPG" /> Artist Statement The first shade house was built with a wooden structure, planted in the ground of a rental property my family moved into after many months of finding a place for the project. It served as a place for my parents to grow their own garden—something I felt like they needed after selling the farm we had lived in for 17 years. Living with them again was also an opportunity to immerse myself in their lifestyle, largely unchanged since migrating from Cambodia over 40 years ago, and a chance to embody their routine, often done by hand. While weeding with a hoe, my mum told me how her brother injured himself with one during the Khmer Rouge — something I always think about now when I use the tool. Physically experiencing these things for myself was a way for me to understand what they endured. Through gardening, I came to understand what it was like to look after a living thing everyday, to put in the work for its well-being and to watch it grow, not unlike the effort of raising children. Closing the windows and making sure the doors were locked were also part of the daily routine. Physical barriers such as screen doors, bars and mesh are both forms of protection and, at the same time, entrap the plants and figures within. The sense of security has always been a priority in my family ever since experiencing a time without it, especially during the Khmer Rouge and refugee camp in the late 70’s and early 80’s. These rituals from the past have endured for so long, shaping my parents’ way of living. My parents have always been collecting hard rubbish and picking up things left on the street to reuse into something else. This project saw used furniture repurposed into garden beds, plant containers and wooden support for the shadehouse. I realised my parents’ way of creatively transforming the used goods they find available to them is not dissimilar to my process of reimagining the environment around me into a heightened reality. The only human presence that appears is in the form of shadow figures. My grandma is partially blind and her mental state has been deteriorating — her reliance on sound and increasing paranoia has been channelled into the atmosphere of the work. Every passing shadow becomes a figure once recognised. While the original shade house continues to be a living and working site, the final shade house evokes the rituals lived, mediated and transformed. It’s a place that conjures up the past where memories and fears echo through its haunted walls. https://allisonchhorn.com/Lost-in-the-Water Fri, 10 Oct 2025 02:06:30 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Lost-in-the-Water <img width="3840" height="2880" width_o="3840" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78980ceb45a70cdcbc628083bfa01bac1f81cc904c81e9a7b83386690d1e45b4/Super-8---5.FILM_4k_2025.09.15_24fps_5.1.00_01_42_09.Still002.jpg" data-mid="239221598" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78980ceb45a70cdcbc628083bfa01bac1f81cc904c81e9a7b83386690d1e45b4/Super-8---5.FILM_4k_2025.09.15_24fps_5.1.00_01_42_09.Still002.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="2880" width_o="3840" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bacf2141471633dba877f42c1d12a8899b366fc8aac85629b648ce97539dda79/Super-8---5.FILM_4k_2025.09.15_24fps_5.1.00_02_21_15.Still044.jpg" data-mid="239221572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bacf2141471633dba877f42c1d12a8899b366fc8aac85629b648ce97539dda79/Super-8---5.FILM_4k_2025.09.15_24fps_5.1.00_02_21_15.Still044.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="2880" width_o="3840" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/903d29874be243cf49b4d8f13f41ffcdd760e143bcbf41a3b72da03cb040b0ed/Super-8---5.FILM_4k_2025.09.15_24fps_5.1.00_11_19_02.Still027.jpg" data-mid="239221571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/903d29874be243cf49b4d8f13f41ffcdd760e143bcbf41a3b72da03cb040b0ed/Super-8---5.FILM_4k_2025.09.15_24fps_5.1.00_11_19_02.Still027.jpg" /> Lost in the Water (2026) Super 8, 5.1, Colour &amp; BNW, 12 mins, Khmer &amp; 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 &amp; 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 Festivals Melbourne International Film Festival, 2026 Crossroads, San Francisco, 2026 Adelaide Film Festival, 2026 https://allisonchhorn.com/Blind-Body Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:44:30 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Blind-Body <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3acc44a3224c6e93182d8dfc47fb52f0129112449e2ab7eb2b6afd1365136a74/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_08_48_17.Still041.png" data-mid="100187195" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3acc44a3224c6e93182d8dfc47fb52f0129112449e2ab7eb2b6afd1365136a74/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_08_48_17.Still041.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d86e9c482e9fed829a5fdb5717b1f972ea516ce69590bcf72b453e4606a8034/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_01_21_05.Still003.png" data-mid="100187189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d86e9c482e9fed829a5fdb5717b1f972ea516ce69590bcf72b453e4606a8034/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_01_21_05.Still003.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffe05ba020087e8ecdf0e289b9009434c74bd9a839e39e8e447ae78f8c144c68/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_07_37_11.Still033.png" data-mid="100187193" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffe05ba020087e8ecdf0e289b9009434c74bd9a839e39e8e447ae78f8c144c68/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_07_37_11.Still033.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c880b3cb95323b903664bc19818ce56007baeaff452f33b316421c29efcb1747/Blind-Body---2021_02_10---pixel-removed.png" data-mid="100187137" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c880b3cb95323b903664bc19818ce56007baeaff452f33b316421c29efcb1747/Blind-Body---2021_02_10---pixel-removed.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58c9ded43cffc846be3a475bd6b1d83fb06b378b81700b3580915bf3f0df05a1/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_13_36_04.Still058.png" data-mid="100187197" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58c9ded43cffc846be3a475bd6b1d83fb06b378b81700b3580915bf3f0df05a1/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_13_36_04.Still058.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ccb45db93f845c40e2a67bcbcf4f5a5f324248f1f419380231fe72c105fdb62/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_13_28_08.Still057.png" data-mid="100187196" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ccb45db93f845c40e2a67bcbcf4f5a5f324248f1f419380231fe72c105fdb62/Blind-Body---2021_02_08-V2-review.00_13_28_08.Still057.png" /> Blind Body (2021) Documentary/Experimental short, 15 mins Trailer Synopsis As abstract shapes come into focus, dim memories surface. With Blind Body, Allison Chhorn offers an impressionistic portrait of her grandmother Kim Nay, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge. Partially blind, Kim spends her days in a mostly sonic and textural world, in which the sound of rain, the voices of Khmer radio, and distant birdsong summon the sensations of a lost homeland. - New York Film Festival / Film at Lincoln Center Press Kit - PDF Festivals: Visions du Réel Film Festival, Switzerland Lima Alterna Film Festival, Peru New York Film Festival, Currents Program, U.S. Black Canvas Film Festival, Mexico Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile Chicago International Film Festival, U.S. Cambodia International Film Festival, Cambodia Linea d’Ombra Festival, Italy Sydney Film Festival, Australia Cámara Lúcida, Ecuador Athens International Film and Video Festival, U.S. Human Rights Arts &amp; Film Festival, Australia St Kilda Film Festival, Australia Laterale Film Festival, Italy Adelaide Film Festival, Australia Brisbane International Film Festival, Australia (Best Australian Documentary Short Film) Izmir International Short Film Festival, Turkey London International Film Festival, UK Brussels Independent Film Festival, Belgium IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, India Reel Good Film Festival, Australia https://allisonchhorn.com/Missing Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:48:21 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Missing <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84cf25e441e14e90df75a289580cc8bc4d9b2bdc9efabf29f6a9b92aa4b8bfcb/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_00_52_15.Still012.png" data-mid="100198904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84cf25e441e14e90df75a289580cc8bc4d9b2bdc9efabf29f6a9b92aa4b8bfcb/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_00_52_15.Still012.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01527a69fe797c22f1c479a86901b6d433954f67d54d2564112e2d8ca9b7f63a/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_01_20_02.Still017.png" data-mid="100198906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01527a69fe797c22f1c479a86901b6d433954f67d54d2564112e2d8ca9b7f63a/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_01_20_02.Still017.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87869e681f93da1f9920663ae1060daa15436d7945a2d094b1224ade4718c811/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_02_38_04.Still024.png" data-mid="100198908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87869e681f93da1f9920663ae1060daa15436d7945a2d094b1224ade4718c811/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_02_38_04.Still024.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a80fff850571c65f9e3a87561228a1e4211618b00e4b0ccc2916fa89e94dd7a/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_03_40_07.Still030.png" data-mid="100199457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a80fff850571c65f9e3a87561228a1e4211618b00e4b0ccc2916fa89e94dd7a/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_03_40_07.Still030.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf0b47d46a4f6e0482abebce1ed26f53a62c9da58e15e2a02224765e35c029b8/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_04_45_24.Still039.png" data-mid="100198910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf0b47d46a4f6e0482abebce1ed26f53a62c9da58e15e2a02224765e35c029b8/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_04_45_24.Still039.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a7577ac186cb89a7687135eb6c7649b21f8ac979feae9ccda15786abee94c67/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_05_30_24.Still045.png" data-mid="100199399" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a7577ac186cb89a7687135eb6c7649b21f8ac979feae9ccda15786abee94c67/PROTOTYPE---grade-2021-02.00_05_30_24.Still045.png" /> Missing (2021) 7 minsCommissioned by Prototype, curated by Lauren Carroll Harris. The separation and distance of the Cambodian diaspora is embodied in two generations of a mother and daughter living apart from each other. Threading common questions of longing and inverting language between English and Khmer, the footage includes a trip to the US &amp; Canada in 2019, excerpt from a poetry reading by Monica Sok and a photograph of my mother and her missing friend from the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp. https://allisonchhorn.com/The-Plastic-House Thu, 21 Feb 2019 02:20:02 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/The-Plastic-House <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47eae07362b06dd363f45261904b58cff8e0dc311da9913b043f9ab06a65aef1/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_11_20_05.Still018.png" data-mid="60864026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47eae07362b06dd363f45261904b58cff8e0dc311da9913b043f9ab06a65aef1/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_11_20_05.Still018.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e170fc00a3c66451a35d4b91226d2d09ded9b44d1be32bcea4e60ad798f1d7e2/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_10_45_21.Still017.png" data-mid="60864024" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e170fc00a3c66451a35d4b91226d2d09ded9b44d1be32bcea4e60ad798f1d7e2/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_10_45_21.Still017.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b91f8c799428804c2c8d97e0b1270b92724401709093358c7de5b70558f5268/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_26_09_01.Still041.png" data-mid="60858865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b91f8c799428804c2c8d97e0b1270b92724401709093358c7de5b70558f5268/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_26_09_01.Still041.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ab0786080f00eacba4b45f86ede5e7d80242dc3dfaaab2441df1e6d2fd9e8ff/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_16_43_20.Still022.png" data-mid="60864028" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ab0786080f00eacba4b45f86ede5e7d80242dc3dfaaab2441df1e6d2fd9e8ff/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_16_43_20.Still022.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25f895d229c97d25c3c2109014394edbfa38af8a6b2487df2fd66c56b965e774/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_11_54_17.Still019.png" data-mid="81488446" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25f895d229c97d25c3c2109014394edbfa38af8a6b2487df2fd66c56b965e774/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_11_54_17.Still019.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/000b33b740c43d28aa6df936ffdebc025a4a9c94190a5b8905d31506642e483b/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_40_30_01.Still072.png" data-mid="60864029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/000b33b740c43d28aa6df936ffdebc025a4a9c94190a5b8905d31506642e483b/The-Plastic-House-Graded-Resolve---Titles.00_40_30_01.Still072.png" /> The Plastic House (2019) Docu-fiction, Experimental, 46 mins Language: Khmer &amp; English SYNOPSIS A young woman constructs a solitary reality by imagining what life would be like after the passing of her parents. Absorbed in the slow process of working alone in the family’s green house, she relives shadow memories of her Cambodian mother and father. The healing ritual of physical labour gradually reveals itself over time. As the plastic roof bears the weight of natural elements, the increasingly precarious weather threatens this new life alone. Press Kit - PDF download FESTIVALSOct 2019 -&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; OzAsia Festival - World Premiere, curated by Nicholas GodfreyApril 2020 - &nbsp;&nbsp; Visions du Réel - International Premiere, Switzerland &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Burning Lights CompetitionJune 2020 - &nbsp; &nbsp; Sydney Film Festival - Documentary Australia Foundation Aug 2020 - &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; MIFF 68½ - Melbourne International Film Festival Aug 2020 -&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Festival ECRÃ - Brazil Online Sept 2020 - &nbsp; &nbsp; FIDBA - Argentina Online Sept 2020 - &nbsp; &nbsp; New York Film Festival, Currents Section, US online Sept 2020 -&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Lima Alterna Film Festival, Peru online&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (Winner of the International Competition) Oct 2020 -&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Black Canvas Film Festival, Mexico online&nbsp; Oct 2020 -&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; FICValdivia, Chile online Oct 2020 - &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Linea d'Ombra Festival, Italy online &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Nov 2020 -&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;RIDM, Montreal International Documentary Festival &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Québec online Nov 2020 - &nbsp; &nbsp; Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo online Dec 2020 -&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Beijing International Short Film Festival Sept 2021 -&nbsp; &nbsp; EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival, South Korea Jan 2022 - &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Australia Select REVIEWS / ARTICLES By Adrian Martin:&nbsp; "Like in Chantal Akerman’s classic Jeanne Dielman … (1975), the absorption in everyday duties and gestures of work creates its own, unusual kind of tension – as well as its own unfolding drama." CityMag article - Family, Identity &amp; the Asian-Australian experience in ‘The Plastic House’ By Laura Davis at Film Explorer:“The Plastic House is a poignant and oblique poem. Its silences stir and images tear.” By Mónica Delgado at Desistfilm: “In times of isolation, Chhorn’s film appears as a déjà vu , not only because it explores a type of solitude that fits well with the climate of social distancing, but because from its mode of production (to the extent that the filmmaker did, in all sense, the film), allows the hope of the continuity of the cinema, from the “do it yourself”, and the investigation of the language of the cinema from minimal resources, but with absolute inventiveness.” By Francisco Álvarez at Cámara Lúcida: “The real world and the dream world become indiscernible.” By Joshua Brunsting at CriterionCast: "Almost the definition of a tone poem, Chhorn’s film is an unforgettable experiment in narrative, looking at one woman’s attempt to combat her grief by tending to her family greenhouse." By Kyle Faulkner on Letterboxd: “Slow, ethereal, melancholic and pensive.” By Dannzel Escobar on FilmStreet:“Her films evoke something highly textured and viscerally felt...” Interview at Film in Revolt with Isabelle By Addy Fong at Something You Said:“Chhorn’s parents in the The Plastic House show a keen interest in gardening, which seems to parallel the experience of many migrant families including mine who often struggle trying to settle into a new country whose customs feel foreign to them.” By Louise Sheedy at Senses of Cinema: "The film feels both universal and highly specific: a gift to those that have lost and a peek into an incredibly private, lonely experience." By Claire Cao at Roughcut:“For her, the possibility of loss not only comes with grief, but also the weight of hereditary responsibility.” By Julia Flaster at Senses of Cinema: “[T]he past is a fleeting memory that cannot withstand external forces“ https://allisonchhorn.com/Last-Time Thu, 21 Feb 2019 02:41:00 +0000 Allison Chhorn https://allisonchhorn.com/Last-Time <img width="800" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39a7d40a4e3da5114be176ba011e596a87cc45a20f8317534482db17e4295d64/Last-Time---Still3-web.jpg" data-mid="60858885" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/39a7d40a4e3da5114be176ba011e596a87cc45a20f8317534482db17e4295d64/Last-Time---Still3-web.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bec4b90ac14ea987075422a53d51466d3da30cc3d2513e365364ae94540f9676/Last-Time---Still1-web.jpg" data-mid="60868372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/bec4b90ac14ea987075422a53d51466d3da30cc3d2513e365364ae94540f9676/Last-Time---Still1-web.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a004666286f00301ec1dbcd0fbbac59a4864c468dac134357d893d88b43fc9f/Last-Time---Still2-web.jpg" data-mid="60868373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/1a004666286f00301ec1dbcd0fbbac59a4864c468dac134357d893d88b43fc9f/Last-Time---Still2-web.jpg" /> Last Time (2018)Narrative short, 4:33 min A dress. A couple. He holds on to the past but does she see a future? Or will this be the last time? Watch here. "The flow of images across different moods, temporalities and intersubjective sensations suggests an immersion in the cinema of Alain Resnais and Claire Denis... crystalline, poised, wordless, highly condensed to the point of elliptical but suggestive mystery." - Adrian Martin Full review here. Official selection for the Adelaide Film Festival, 2018.