Emily Chao

Emily Chao Trailers

Light Signal TrailerAs Long as There Is Breath TrailerNo Land Trailer

Emily Chao is a filmmaker based in the SF Bay Area. She is a co-programmer of Light Field, an international exhibition of moving image art on celluloid and a member of Black Hole Collective Film Lab in Oakland, CA. She is from San Jose, California and earned her MFA in Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts.

Most Popular Emily Chao Trailers

Total trailers found: 6

Bruce Takes Dragon Town Trailer (2015)

30 October 2015

Upon discovering her uncle's lost kung fu film, the filmmaker travels to Taiwan during Ghost Month to uncover his past.

chive pockets Trailer (2017)

01 September 2017

A short 16mm film by Emily Chao documenting her grandmother making Chinese chive pockets for the last time.

As Long as There Is Breath Trailer (2020)

12 August 2020

An assembly of collected memories shatter the interior and open portals to the outside. Completed during shelter-in-place in Northern California.

No Land Trailer (2019)

07 June 2019

A darkly mysterious landscape study. The infiltration of natural space.

Light Signal Trailer (2022)

28 August 2022

A keeper’s log, a score for light, a script for sound. A reconstruction, a slow reclamation. To begin where there is light.

The Motherhood Archives Trailer (2013)

01 October 2013

Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to '70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form The Motherhood Archives, a lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century.