Speculative fiction moving-image worlds
in film, performance, sound and installation
Mark Chua (b.1992) and Lam Li Shuen (b.1996) are a filmmaker-artist duo who work across film, expanded cinema performance and installations. Their works explore the intersections of histories, materialities and existential anxieties, through speculative fiction and multimedia stagings. They are based in Singapore.
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 Clermont-Ferrand (2026) 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 also regularly present 16mm expanded cinema performances utilizing self-modified 16mm projectors retrofitted with microcontroller systems, and have performed at festivals such as Berlinale (Germany), EX!T Festival (Taiwan), Painting With Light (Singapore) and Videoex (Switzerland).
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, Locarno Residency 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 