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Image Exile

2026 Director & Editor & VFX/AI Artist

Returning to her hometown after discovering a mysterious discrepancy between a childhood videotape and her own memory, filmmaker Wendy Tong journeys through pirate DVDs, family archives, and AI-generated worlds, exploring how images, memories, and histories are constantly rewritten.

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A Palace of Images

2026 Co-Director & Producer & VFX/AI Artist

Combining documentary interviews, archival footage, and mythological fiction, A Palace of Images follows an exiled keeper of a celestial image archive searching the human world for lost images. As he traces their paths through China's history of piracy and image circulation, a hidden afterlife of images emerges—one in which forgotten pictures continue to drift across time, memory, and belief.

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Still Here, Still There

2025 Director & Editor & Cinematographer

Still Here, Still There explores the emotional journey of my aunt Zhu Fang, a 50+ Chinese woman who has moved to the US alone, driven by the hope of fulfilling her version of the “American Dream.” It's a dream that, in many ways, was delayed by 30 years. She struggles to maintain bonds with her family back home, her relentless pursuit of a dream built for others, not herself, reveals contradictions between freedom, duty, and identity. Through the interaction and connection with her, I reflect on my own path in documentary filmmaking. This is not just Zhu Fang’s story, it’s a meditation on generational expectations, cultural displacement, and the blurred line between sacrifice and obsession.

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