Chisato (Chisa) Hughes uses film to explore new forms of relating and worldbuilding. Their first film, “Many Moons,” asks questions about ghosts and placemaking today– looking at the history of Chinese expulsions in Humboldt County, where they grew up, and the webs of relation between Chinese people and Native people that formed out of / despite the violence of settlement. “Many Moons” premiered at CAAMFest and has since acquired distribution with Third World Newsreel. Chisa will be directing their first fiction screenplay, “Behind the Horizon Line”, this summer with a transnational film collective of friends– inspired by the work of poet Etel Adnan about borders and their afterlives. Currently, Chisa’s work has been shown at UC Santa Cruz’s Sesnon Gallery and Institute for the Arts and Sciences, SF Moma, and at UCLA’s Film and Television Archive.

you can contact them at chisahughes@gmail.com and view some of their work here.