Our Love Utopia
documentary short
2020-2021
documentary short
2020-2021
Dating apps pervade globally. For a generation innately able to summarize ourselves in a few words and pictures for the online audience, is intimacy at all within our reach? Our Love Utopia [documentary film] seeks such ponderance through an exercise with young people in Ho Chi Minh City. Posing a hypothetical question - a dating app on which users would be represented as bedrooms? - the project uses imagination and conversation as vehicles towards deeper connections.
Completed with support from the SMFA Dean’s Research Award
Medium: single channel video
19 minutes
Trailer linked here
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Our Love Utopia [open edition] (2021):
In my online residency with Bay Library during Vietnam’s 2021 COVID-19 lockdown, I expanded the project into a participatory one, in which Instagram users could sign up to join the “dating app.” Users filled out an online form describing what their bedrooms would look like on the “app.” Afterwhich, I rendered their ideas into 3DCG videos. These videos were posted anonymously onto the library’s IG account, where any users could match with someone by messaging us. Through connecting anonymous profiles that shared no name, gender, nor age, the project also seeked to expand our notion of connecction especially in a time of isolation.
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Completed with support from the SMFA Dean’s Research Award
Medium: single channel video
19 minutes
Trailer linked here
Film stills:
Our Love Utopia [open edition] (2021):
In my online residency with Bay Library during Vietnam’s 2021 COVID-19 lockdown, I expanded the project into a participatory one, in which Instagram users could sign up to join the “dating app.” Users filled out an online form describing what their bedrooms would look like on the “app.” Afterwhich, I rendered their ideas into 3DCG videos. These videos were posted anonymously onto the library’s IG account, where any users could match with someone by messaging us. Through connecting anonymous profiles that shared no name, gender, nor age, the project also seeked to expand our notion of connecction especially in a time of isolation.
Open edition video stills:
Film poster:
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