Alison Nguyen

you can't plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens

Alison Nguyen

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.

White on White

Alison Nguyen

Alex Wolkowicz

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.

Spectrum

Alison Nguyen

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

Signal

Alison Nguyen

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.

every dog has its day

Alison Nguyen

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

my favorite software is being here

Alison Nguyen

"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

Dessert - Disaster

Alison Nguyen

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.