Ruthful
When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the food, she is suddenly able to relive suppressed memories of her deceased grandmother. Now she must confront their multifaceted relationship and her own identity to find her peace.
Saturday Class
The short film tells a slice-of-life story set in a family-run Chinese bakery, exploring parenting philosophies and the pressures faced by the younger immigrant generation.
This House That Bears No Fruit
A teenage girl must come to terms with her tense relationship with her mother while reckoning with the suspicion that she may be eating far more than just fruits from their garden.
The Sweet and the Bitter
A Japanese woman arrives in Vancouver seeking revenge against the businessman who ruined her family.
THÁI BẢO HUỲNH KHANG
A trans Vietnamese woman's deadname being repeated over and over again.
A Rose, a Fisheye, and a Line
A Rose, a Fisheye, and a Line investigates the associations that are commonly made between names, places, and identity. Born and raised in Canada, Ramachandran’s South Indian name has been significant in the shaping of her identity. This piece focuses on her own given name, Rekha (meaning straight line or ray of light), and those of her grandmothers, Rose and Meenakshi (meaning fisheye, or beautiful eye). Ramachandran engages the symbols of these names, creating plastic interplay between the images of a rose, fisheye, lines, and light. This piece aims to subvert the traditional representation of linage, which is often represented at patrilineal and unidirectional, instead presenting female relatives and demonstrating multi-directional familial connections. Although her maternal and paternal grandmothers never had the chance to meet before they passed away, separated by cultural and geographical distances, Ramachandran attempts to connect them in the present day.
Prairie Rhythms
Prairie Rhythms focuses on the Manitoban prairie, where Ramachandran grew up, in an exploration of the artist’s mixed-race identity. As music from a Tamil film plays over flickering views of the snow-covered prairies, the landscape of Prairie Rhythms reveals multiple, overlapping connections to differing cultures, places, and notions of home.