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Maggots For Brains (Lyric Video) - Olivia Rodrigo

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Giants


CHAOS, FEAR, AND THOUSANDS OF CALLS
For SF Standard

Every day, the San Francisco Rapid Response Network fields calls about ICE raids — some urgent, some false, some from people trying to turn in their neighbors. Their job isn’t just to confirm what’s real but to prevent panic in a community on edge. Listen in on the calls that come through.

Cyanotype animation. 225 hand-printed frames.

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What a Blind Photographer Saw at the Paralympics
For NYT Opinion

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Where No One Lives
Short Film
2022
dir. Li Anne Liew

One night, three lonely next-door neighbors find themselves in search of connection, forgiveness, and company in an old apartment building.

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Marionettes




What will the Year of the Rabbit bring us in 2023?

For Los Angeles Times

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The Stone WhispersFuturemade Studio
SS26

The faint glimmer of a memory long forgotten. A rock attempts to recall the only time it has ever been picked up.

Sound Design by 
Fuse Adventures in Audio +
Calvin Ho
Brian Wong
Jashir Junaidi


The best fireworks, according to L.A.’s pyrotechnic legends
For Los Angeles Times

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 for my nephews who love to blow on flowers and make movies together.
my 4-year old nephew once asked me, “can you draw me a memory?”

i’ll bottle one up right here.

background elements form the public domain image archive, flower blooming timelapse from a youtube video i can no longer find, and the song is “knew you well” by art lown.



Lone Star








A few vignettes of summertime










It’s all in my hands
i hear another tree go down
i don’t think the ants have anywhere else to go,
a moth slips out from under me and i am swept by it all,
now it’s all in my hands.

Chlorophyll print on leaves from my garden.

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glide (all the people you’ll never be)
Short Film
16mm, 2025
dir. Li Anne Liew

Between life and death, a young ghost comes to terms with her loneliness when she becomes a spectator of the life around her.

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Six Books You Can Get Lost InFor The Atlantic

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Less (Lyric Video) - Olivia Rodrigo
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What I Learned at a Fire Ceremony With King Charles
Animation for NYT- Climate Forward
 2025





A few photos of mine
A tulip festival, dancers, somewhere by a highway, a San Francisco street

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Rainbow Colour Fish
i made this after finding a voice recording of my nephew talking about his pet fish (a fighting fish… a rainbow coloured fish!). inspired by sunday morning cartoons and nature documentaries, here’s my nephew as curious wildlife.

music by Yoki Ng
Experiments
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