Video Work Selections
PROJECTS
Behind the Horizon Line (in production)
2025
This short fiction film is inspired by the work of poet Etel Adnan about borders and their afterlives. A Lebanese scientist contracted to gather soil samples begins to unravel as she investigates mysterious phenomena on Mt. Tamalpais. While grappling with the dehumanizing bureaucracy of her visa process, sh becomes obsessed with the mountain’s secrets—questioning whether she’s losing her mind or discovering a hidden reality.
My screenplay will be realized by a transnational collective group of friends this summer 2025.
more on project here.
2025
This short fiction film is inspired by the work of poet Etel Adnan about borders and their afterlives. A Lebanese scientist contracted to gather soil samples begins to unravel as she investigates mysterious phenomena on Mt. Tamalpais. While grappling with the dehumanizing bureaucracy of her visa process, sh becomes obsessed with the mountain’s secrets—questioning whether she’s losing her mind or discovering a hidden reality.
My screenplay will be realized by a transnational collective group of friends this summer 2025.
more on project here.
Treasure Island 2023 | 11:24 minutes
"Treasure Island" is an experimental short film that looks at the history of San Francisco's Treasure Island while it undergoes a new wave of displacement as a proclaimed "Eco-City"
by San Franciscan development. Combining observational footage, interviews, and archival footage, the film illuminates the island's various histories as a site for ideological projections about the future in contrast with the urgent dreams of those who currently call it home.
director: chisato hughes
co-director: oana tenter
trailer here.
"Treasure Island" is an experimental short film that looks at the history of San Francisco's Treasure Island while it undergoes a new wave of displacement as a proclaimed "Eco-City"
by San Franciscan development. Combining observational footage, interviews, and archival footage, the film illuminates the island's various histories as a site for ideological projections about the future in contrast with the urgent dreams of those who currently call it home.
director: chisato hughes
co-director: oana tenter
trailer here.
Many Moons
2023 | 21:43 minutes
Charlie Moon’s mythology precedes him: his image and name live on as the “last Chinese Man of Humboldt County” after the purging of its Chinese community in 1885– and his descendents, known as the Moons, touch all local native tribes in the area. But were there others who survived?
With the help of Yurok, Hupa, and Chinese American residents– and framed by archival remnants– Many Moons investigates the ghostly marks left on a landscape repurposed for settlement. As a ghost responds, a missing persons case becomes an interrogation of history-making as Asian community members breathe life back into gaps in the archive.
directed & produced by chisato hughes
more on project here.
2023 | 21:43 minutes
Charlie Moon’s mythology precedes him: his image and name live on as the “last Chinese Man of Humboldt County” after the purging of its Chinese community in 1885– and his descendents, known as the Moons, touch all local native tribes in the area. But were there others who survived?
With the help of Yurok, Hupa, and Chinese American residents– and framed by archival remnants– Many Moons investigates the ghostly marks left on a landscape repurposed for settlement. As a ghost responds, a missing persons case becomes an interrogation of history-making as Asian community members breathe life back into gaps in the archive.
directed & produced by chisato hughes
more on project here.
INSTITUTIONAL WORK
Hammer Museum, 2012–2020
Made in L.A. 2018 Video Series
Artist announcement, ad campaign, and video profiles featuring E.J. Hill & Texas Isaiah, Mercedes Dorame, Eamon Ore-Giron, Luchita Hurtado, taisha paggett, Diedrick Brackens, Flora Weigmann, and more.
Produced, directed, and edited.
Watch videos here.
Artist announcement, ad campaign, and video profiles featuring E.J. Hill & Texas Isaiah, Mercedes Dorame, Eamon Ore-Giron, Luchita Hurtado, taisha paggett, Diedrick Brackens, Flora Weigmann, and more.
Produced, directed, and edited.
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Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
Video campaign & series for Hammer exhibition, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985. The exhibition was the first survey of radical and feminist art practices in Latin America and among Latina artists in the United States. Exhibition videos traveled to the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo in Brazil, and were featured on Univision.
Produced, filmed, and edited.
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Produced, filmed, and edited.
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Made in L.A. 2016 Video Series
Artist announcement, ad campaign, and video profiles featuring Kenzi Shiokava, Martine Syms, Gala Porras-Kim, Todd Gray, Daniel R. Small, Kelly Akashi, Adam Linder, and more.
Produced, directed, and edited.
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Artist announcement, ad campaign, and video profiles featuring Kenzi Shiokava, Martine Syms, Gala Porras-Kim, Todd Gray, Daniel R. Small, Kelly Akashi, Adam Linder, and more.
Produced, directed, and edited.
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Made in L.A. 2014 Video Series
Artist announcement and video profiles featuring Jennifer Moon, Channing Hansen, Jmy Kidd and the Sunland Dancers, Public Fiction, and more.
Produced, directed, and edited.
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Artist announcement and video profiles featuring Jennifer Moon, Channing Hansen, Jmy Kidd and the Sunland Dancers, Public Fiction, and more.
Produced, directed, and edited.
Watch videos here.
Living Apart Together: Artists on the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Series for Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisition from the Hammer Contemporary Collection which featured three different artists (Harry Dodge, Liz Larner, and Bruce Yonemoto) speaking to other works included in the exhibition.
Produced, filmed, and edited.
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Produced, filmed, and edited.
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Hammer Project Profiles
Video profile series covering Hammer Projects, a curatorial program at the museum highlighting contemporary artists in a single-gallery presentation.
Produced, filmed, and edited.
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Produced, filmed, and edited.
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Video campaign & series for exhibition, Stories of Almost Everyone.
Produced, directed, and edited.
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Produced, directed, and edited.
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UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015
Video series for exhibition UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015 featuring Frances Stark and Bobby Jesus.
Produced, directed, and edited.
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Produced, directed, and edited.
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Other Highlights
