Thirty years after his passing, filmmaker Lesley Chan re-examines Lloyd Wong’s uncompleted video art project about living with HIV.
Lloyd Wong, Suy Woo Wong
Canada
2024
English
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Lesley Loksi Chan, Luo Li, Phanuel Antwi
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Lesley Loksi Chan
Lesley Loksi Chan
Lesley Loksi Chan, born in Hamilton, Ontario, is an artist and filmmaker who creates moving-image works as mementos through experimental, handmade, and process-based filmmaking. Chan’s films have been presented internationally at galleries and festivals, and her accolades include the award for Best Emerging Film/Videomaker for Curse Cures (2009) at the Images Festival, the York University Graduate Studies Thesis Prize for The Urge to Run a Lap (2017), and both the Teddy Award and the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 75th Berlinale for Lloyd Wong, Unfinished (2025).
Photo by Phanuel Antwi
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