Alison Nguyen

A family-owned hosiery company rents out part of its factory space to avoid foreclosure. One night, they open the new tenant's boxes and things take a turn.

Short investigation of light and color, shot on Super 8mm.

A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of ‘disaster porn’ found in the news and on the Internet.

Collaboration with sound artist Hemant Sreekumar. The piece was recorded in a single take, using found footage, two live camera feeds, live analog video manipulation, and a synthesizer connected to a wobbulator.

Cult-produced media and religious iconography crash in this heterogenous essay film.

"Originally focused on exploring the non-content language-soup of social media (with help from programmer/researcher Achim Koh), this iteration of Andra8’s existence is more narrative, with an actual identity growing from influencer primordial data. Subsisting on shakes supplied by subscribers, performing menial tasks trapped in a setting as much to project out as live in, and constantly self-promoting in companionate couching, Andra8’s situation will feel familiar to those reliant on and resentful of the gig economy we’re trapped in." - Screen Slate

A family-owned hosiery company rents out part of its factory space to avoid foreclosure. One night, they open the new tenant's boxes and things take a turn.

A family-owned hosiery company rents out part of its factory space to avoid foreclosure. One night, they open the new tenant's boxes and things take a turn.

Short investigation of light and color, shot on Super 8mm.

A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of ‘disaster porn’ found in the news and on the Internet.

Collaboration with sound artist Hemant Sreekumar. The piece was recorded in a single take, using found footage, two live camera feeds, live analog video manipulation, and a synthesizer connected to a wobbulator.

Cult-produced media and religious iconography crash in this heterogenous essay film.

"Originally focused on exploring the non-content language-soup of social media (with help from programmer/researcher Achim Koh), this iteration of Andra8’s existence is more narrative, with an actual identity growing from influencer primordial data. Subsisting on shakes supplied by subscribers, performing menial tasks trapped in a setting as much to project out as live in, and constantly self-promoting in companionate couching, Andra8’s situation will feel familiar to those reliant on and resentful of the gig economy we’re trapped in." - Screen Slate

A collage of blown-out, re-appropriated footage of lens flare from contemporary American advertisements. The piece is a critique of and meditation on visual codes for authenticity and spirituality used in white-dominated mass media.

A woman’s face surfaces in and out of a white, contextless space. Repeating an action in which she turns and distorts her face before the camera, the piece centers on a spectral performance of identity within the material life of the film.

A speculative road film that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, the work follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they journey through an uncanny desert landscape to a nearby metropolis.