https://chisatohughes.com Chisato Hughes Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:41:17 +0000 https://chisatohughes.com en https://chisatohughes.com/Front-page Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:03:10 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/Front-page chisato hughesfilmmakermore https://chisatohughes.com/About Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:03:10 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/About !function(c,h,i,m,p){m=c.createElement(h),p=c.getElementsByTagName(h)[0],m.async=1,m.src=i,p.parentNode.insertBefore(m,p)}(document,"script","https://chimpstatic.com/mcjs-connected/js/users/bc1ccae4814ba08e50762cebe/3d867d7105499c46910d53c30.js");about video work about&nbsp; 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 fall with timetides cooperative– 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. Chisato is a founding member of timetides cooperative.&nbsp; You can contact them at chisahughes@gmail.com, view some of their work here, and their film programs here. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; width:600px;} /* Add your own Mailchimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. 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Rooted in care and cultural specificity, we commit to each other’s visions through shared study, co-creation, and exchange. Our mission is to build sustainable lives for ourselves as filmmakers and cultural workers, to create opportunities for other Bay Area filmmakers through film work, and to use our cooperative work to create transformative conversations through making and screening films. Our projects move with the tides of time and emerging events: from a public history film led by coastal Indigenous voices on California missions to a queer diaspora fundraiser for immigration fees to a public performance on life after Beirut's 2020 port explosion. Over the past five years, our cooperative has taken fluid and flexible shapes as we have shifted between directing, producing, shooting, editing, writing, and consulting roles on each others’ short films and multidisciplinary projects. Our ongoing and overlapping projects are dynamic, relational, and grounded in care and commitment to each other and our work. Our conversations amidst the backdrop of war and ecological crisis continually circle around re-thinking and re-imagining our many worlds – how to not only collectively survive, but flourish.&nbsp; The current decimation of public television and public arts funding is a devastating blow to the already frail support structures for independent filmmaking and distribution. Meanwhile, in the Bay Area and globally we feel the consequences of wealth inequality, shelter-as-commodity rather than basic necessity, and the emergence of techno-fascism. More than ever, we feel the call for a re-imagining of the possibilities of cooperative practices in work, housing, and resource-sharing as critical ways of re-orienting ourselves and our communities toward resiliency. Our cooperative practices of sharing skills, tools/equipment, time, energy, and social influence/resources are adaptive and effective means of supporting life and creative work. We envision this network reaching to the global home communities of which we are a part in order to transmit resources and opportunities to other artists in less-resourced locations with whom we collaborate and create. Through developing our new film project, Behind the Horizon Line (our most ambitious to date), we have formed relationships with funders including the Berkeley Film Foundation and established fiscal sponsorship with The Gotham. We are creating a robust community engagement and distribution plan with the intent to solidify our cooperative as a visible creative entity in the Bay Area and beyond, expanding our capacity to create film projects that will enable us and others to sustain personal and communal life. The priority populations/communities for our work are those who reflect our own many identities: queer, migrant, student, limited-income, disabled, diasporic, trans, nonbinary, women, and people of color.&nbsp; https://chisatohughes.com/film-programs Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:41:17 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/film-programs FILM PROGRAMSsilent films for the new moon good hot, march 29, 2025 | 4–8pmprogrammed by chisato hughes <img src="//freight.cargo.site/w/618/q/94/i/618d0601d09880a7775d6f93b24f790db8dd8617a78291986e787bfb9cf5a12e/roy-artwork-new-moon-3_29.jpeg" border="0" width="618" height="772" width_o="618" height_o="772" data-src="" caption="" class="" style="width: 398.434px; height: 497.72px;" data-mid="236366958" data-scale="31"> <img src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1500/q/75/i/ca0a1c05514683448871a68bc35f5f0676b8f012eb4e4c4c9bbaa5975a267810/new-moon-2.jpg" border="0" width="1500" height="844" width_o="1500" height_o="844" data-src="" caption="" class="" style="width: 989.658px; height: 556.848px;" data-mid="236366970" data-scale="77"><img src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1000/q/75/i/d947ccc16159b11a014b455c4998d04da5f727b831e44c6a0b36e118b851b44c/new-moon-screening.jpg" border="0" width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="" caption="" class="" style="width: 989.658px; height: 557.177px;" data-mid="236366971" data-scale="77"> territories bound + unbound | queer diasporic filmsmutual aid screening for nataly vasquez marinero, currently detained by ICE greenhouse project, february 23rd 2025 | 5pmprogrammed by chisato hughes and yasmine benabdallah<img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbd73ac63036a9817ee197a433446b284fd9769185e8cc3ff9c2a87057a5a570/bound-and-unbound_1.jpg" data-mid="236351822" border="0" data-scale="40" style="width: 514.108px; height: 642.635px;" src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1000/q/75/i/bbd73ac63036a9817ee197a433446b284fd9769185e8cc3ff9c2a87057a5a570/bound-and-unbound_1.jpg"> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5189574e5b22bacd74e5394704b9e7e6c9e184983c32d9574c77b8a3eec4e181/page-2.jpg" data-mid="236351824" border="0" data-scale="40" style="width: 514.108px; height: 642.635px;" src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1000/q/75/i/5189574e5b22bacd74e5394704b9e7e6c9e184983c32d9574c77b8a3eec4e181/page-2.jpg"><img src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1920/q/75/i/db93e5c58fb04a7771dad465bfabda17026da4be844ae15be9e3b83beeaf9f5c/bound-unbound.jpg" border="0" width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="" caption="" class="" style="width: 1041.07px; height: 585.601px;" data-mid="236366523" data-scale="81"> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08186a660dd421313ffd841a5733cf4f08587361e7af1ad1aed5d962c5423390/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-3.47.05PM.png" data-mid="236368378" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08186a660dd421313ffd841a5733cf4f08587361e7af1ad1aed5d962c5423390/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-3.47.05PM.png" /> ashes to clay | films about freedom as a placemutual aid screening for incarcerated firefighters in the L.A. wildfires green house project, january 25th, 5pmprogrammed by chisato hughes <img src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1000/q/75/i/1d30f586c2019b350f46a031096f309892c4f351956c75227e03b60ca7bbe247/Slide_1-new-dimensions.jpg" border="0" width="1000" height="1250" width_o="1000" height_o="1250" data-src="" caption="" class="" style="width: 501.255px; height: 626.569px;" data-mid="236366527" data-scale="39"> <img src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1000/q/75/i/dee91f82c16ae328ba050fb3e0ef008fbfff78dc3c0866b7b950b511339b320e/Slide-2-new-dimensions.jpg" border="0" width="1000" height="1250" width_o="1000" height_o="1250" data-src="" caption="" class="" style="width: 501.255px; height: 626.569px;" data-mid="236366529" data-scale="39"><img width="1920" height="1076" width_o="1920" height_o="1076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0519d9e421dba45c15c28171ac8cef79a8cc0f7c316363c9a8aa49d8b1454526/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-3.44.34PM.png" data-mid="236368355" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0519d9e421dba45c15c28171ac8cef79a8cc0f7c316363c9a8aa49d8b1454526/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-3.44.34PM.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c20586b5657689544126c5e6edbc7a9ecbc4e893ee78b1e66cae842f4fc56ba2/ashes-to-clay.jpg" data-mid="236364804" border="0" style="width: 1015.36px; height: 571.142px;" src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1920/q/75/i/c20586b5657689544126c5e6edbc7a9ecbc4e893ee78b1e66cae842f4fc56ba2/ashes-to-clay.jpg" data-scale="79">films for palestineabrams-claghorn gallery, albany, CA. february 19th, 2024. programmed by yuli barbosa + chisato hughes <img width="1170" height="1170" width_o="1170" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d765501c2776ba368c47c4175f14cc7e58dd42aae7986d0e6d526c51c5ebfac/IMG_3767.jpg" data-mid="236367282" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d765501c2776ba368c47c4175f14cc7e58dd42aae7986d0e6d526c51c5ebfac/IMG_3767.jpg" /> <img width="1170" height="1163" width_o="1170" height_o="1163" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5817790c89242900bf68f700b957152258331c4549026587a8fcfbee7991d051/IMG_3768.jpg" data-mid="236367343" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5817790c89242900bf68f700b957152258331c4549026587a8fcfbee7991d051/IMG_3768.jpg" /> <img width="1170" height="1100" width_o="1170" height_o="1100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a9582088e7a588f6f5c8f4f123e0d2b8124d13d485c209a6e5745356a3f41eb/IMG_3769.jpg" data-mid="236367348" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a9582088e7a588f6f5c8f4f123e0d2b8124d13d485c209a6e5745356a3f41eb/IMG_3769.jpg" /> <img width="1169" height="1161" width_o="1169" height_o="1161" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdf86c28624805c01d7a7c8fcd598968ec5c3314761f3bf80aed7d8a43592bb2/IMG_3770.jpg" data-mid="236367352" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdf86c28624805c01d7a7c8fcd598968ec5c3314761f3bf80aed7d8a43592bb2/IMG_3770.jpg" /> https://chisatohughes.com/Other-Highlights Mon, 09 Sep 2019 20:31:13 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/Other-Highlights Other Highlights https://chisatohughes.com/Many-Moons Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:37:23 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/Many-Moons Many MoonsCharlie Moon’s mythology precedes him: his image and name live on as the “last Chinese Man of Humboldt County” after its mass expulsion of 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. Logline In the county which once boasted it was “free of Chinamen,” Chinese community members search for those who may have survived Humboldt's 1885 expulsion and 60 years of enforced exclusion– the only known survivor being Charlie Moon, whose descendants are Native tribal members. Framed by the words of a ghost, this hybrid documentary/fiction film alternates between the observational search for ‘the others’ with the appearance of ghosts as the past demands recognition in the present. https://chisatohughes.com/Behind-the-Horizon-Line Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:40:31 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/Behind-the-Horizon-Line Behind the Horizon Line (in production) LOGLINE 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, she becomes obsessed with the mountain’s secrets—questioning whether she’s losing her mind or discovering a hidden reality. CAST + CREW FOR TRAILER: Irma Yuliana Barbosa | Production Design + Costume Chisato Hughes | Director, Writer, and Producer Lalu Ozban | Line Producer Allen Riley | Actor [voice of interviewer] Lara Saab | Actor + Producer Pia Sazani | Dramaturge + Primary Script Consultant Oana Tenter | Assistant Director&nbsp; CREW | FILM:Mulu Ayenew | Production Design + Costume Kyle Baker | Sound Recording Ruth Anne Beutler | Creative ProducerMatte Hewitt | Sound Recording Sophia Hussain | Script Consultant Chisato Hughes | Director, Writer, and Producer Cedoy Kiziltug | D.P. Lalu Ozban | Producer Lara Saab | Actor + ProducerOana Tenter | Assistant Director + Producer for inquiries + more, contact chisato hughes. https://chisatohughes.com/Made-in-L-A-2014 Thu, 01 Sep 2016 04:03:24 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/Made-in-L-A-2014 Directed and edited exhibition preview for the Hammer Museum's L.A. Biennial. Photographs taken at the video billboard installation at JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE. Summer 2014. <img width="640" height="359" width_o="640" height_o="359" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1b2a2d4d0c29dad67b80f2e89edee902a3f1f384d7aca3cd4834ac47a33515e/Unknown-2_o.png" data-mid="43076917" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/c1b2a2d4d0c29dad67b80f2e89edee902a3f1f384d7aca3cd4834ac47a33515e/Unknown-2_o.png" /><img width="640" height="359" width_o="640" height_o="359" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29d4d23379eee69154caebf1e80fc6d42ad8a4131240a8736d80249d437b95bd/Unknown-1_o.png" data-mid="43076916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/29d4d23379eee69154caebf1e80fc6d42ad8a4131240a8736d80249d437b95bd/Unknown-1_o.png" /><img width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/292764087fcff60e536c3a44c2af059aefe2cc34b918af6fa3fb5c09fdbb2690/Unknown-3_o.png" data-mid="43076918" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/292764087fcff60e536c3a44c2af059aefe2cc34b918af6fa3fb5c09fdbb2690/Unknown-3_o.png" />Selected Video Profiles from exhibition: https://chisatohughes.com/Made-in-L-A-2016 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 04:36:41 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/Made-in-L-A-2016 https://chisatohughes.com/Made-in-L-A-2018 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 04:45:54 +0000 Chisato Hughes https://chisatohughes.com/Made-in-L-A-2018