Screening of Lesley Loksi Chan’s “Lloyd Wong, Unfinished”, along with a program of short films

This Thursday, November 6, at 6:00 PM, at the Ars Art Factory (Studio 98), there will be a screening of Lesley Loksi Chan’s Lloyd Wong, Unfinished, along with a program of short films curated by the artist. Following the screening, there will be an artist talk with Lesley Loksi Chan, moderated by Taavi Talve.

PROGRAMME:

Screening I

18:00 CATALOGS WITHOUT ORDER (55 min)

Catalogs Without Order gathers short films and videos that unsettle the logics of classification. Through experimental encounters with chronophotography, phytography, cyanotypes, 16mm film, home videos, and archival or found footage, the works in this program move through systems of | indexing | naming | archiving | to trace off-center ways of ~ sensing ~ recording ~ erasing ~ opening up spaces for new relations and attentions. 

Featuring the works of Anivides, Mikiki, Chris Chong, Franci Duran, Derek Jenkins, Serena Lee, and Ron Siu, Catalogs Without Order insists on tending through disarray.

“Camera Trap”(2019) by Chris Chong 9:40
“Detached Brick” by Serena Lee 9:18
“diario de verano” by Anivides 3:41
“Elite Controller  2” by Mikiki 5:45
“Herbaria x Pelicula: Field Portrait” by Derek Jenkins 11:00
“Light Offering” by Serena Lee 6:40
“Linea Ver” by Franci Duran 3:39
“Shy Eyes, Singing Stone” by Ron Siu 5:03

Screening II

19:00 “Lloyd Wong, Unfinished” (2025) (29 min)

In the early 1990s, Lloyd Wong began to make a video about living with HIV in Toronto, but he died before the work was completed. Thirty years later, Lesley Loksi Chan reworks the material he left behind. Rough and unprocessed, this film explores the meaning of incompletion. Supported by the Nordic Artist Exchange, Cotton Factory, Estonian Arts Association, Hamilton Arts Council, City of Hamilton Enrichment Fund, Dandelion Film Collective.

Lesley Loksi Chan (b. 1978) is an acclaimed artist and filmmaker whose practice explores how objects and images shape memory, perception, and collective experience. Working with experimental, handmade, and process-based film techniques, Chan creates moving-image works that evoke acts of remembrance. Her latest film, Lloyd Wong, Unfinished (2025), premiered at the 75th Berlinale, where it received both the Golden Bear for Best Short Film and the Teddy Award for Best Short Film.

Lesley Loksi Chan is in Tallinn as part of the Cotton Factory Nordic Artist Exchange residency program.

Supported by the Nordic Artist Exchange, Cotton Factory, Estonian Arts Association, Hamilton Arts Council, City of Hamilton Enrichment Fund, Dandelion Film Collective.

Photo: Screenshot “Lloyd Wong, Unfinished” (2025) (Lloyd Wong, Lesley Loksi Chan)