Mark Chua (b.1992) and Lam Li Shuen (b.1996) are a filmmaker-artist duo from Singapore who work across film, audiovisual performance, music and installations. Their works explore the intersections of histories, materialities and existential anxieties, through speculative fiction and multimedia stagings.
The duo are co-founders of Emoumie, an independent film production studio. Their films have screened at international film festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2024, 2023), New Directors/New Films (2023) presented by MoMA and Film at Lincoln Center, BFI London Film Festival (2021) and Tampere Film Festival (2021). In 2021, with their short film A Man Trembles, they were awarded Best Southeast Asian Director at the Singapore International Film Festival. Their short film The Cup received the First Prize (Moving Images) of the Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize in 2021.
Chua and Lam have presented audiovisual and expanded cinema performances utilising 16mm and Super 8 projections, at the Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre (Taipei), ArtScience Museum (Singapore), Oldham Theatre (Singapore) and the National Museum of Singapore. They have also released multiple albums as the art rock duo ARE.
Their recent exhibitions and installations include: Before and After the Unknown (Singapore Art Week 2025), A Lotus Turns To Light (ArtScience Museum, 2024), Silhouettes of Having Been (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 2024). They were residents of the Esplanade Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency in 2024.
They are currently developing their feature project, Strange Root (Keinginan), which was selected for CineMart 2025, Berlinale Talents Script Station 2024, Full Circle Lab Philippines 2024, mylab+@Jogja 2023 and Talents Tokyo 2023.
Photo by Tiffany Nah
Mark Chua & Lam Li Shuen 