Title
motherland 母懷之地
Artists
Writer, Director, Producer, Performer, Editor: Alger Ji-Liang | Director, Producer, Editor, Craft Services: Joshua Lam | Choreographer, BTS Videographer: Sarah Wong | Director of Photography, VFX: Shiun Okada | Background Performers: James Albers, Suyu He, Hubey Razon, Martin Yeo, Ophelia Zhao, Alexander Christopher Yeung | Mentors: Nancy Lee, Ying Wang
Screenings
World premiere: Festival of Recorded Movement (F-O-R-M) Commissioning Fund Program, Winner of Artistic Committee Award, Vancouver/online, 2021 | Vancouver Asian Film Festival, 2022 | Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, 2023 | Images Festival, Toronto, 2023 | DisOrient Film Festival, Eugene, OR, 2024 | Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, 2024 | qiantai osf, Guangzhou, 2025
About This Project
In motherland, a grieving boy moves through liminal spaces, queering time as he simultaneously embodies the past, present, and future.