Hân Phạm (Phạm Thụy Mai Hân) is an emerging Vietnamese filmmaker and visual artist from Saigon, Vietnam. Working with experimental haptic video/film, photography, and soundscape, Hân’s works think through the impermanence of memory, language, and history in relation to the constantly changing and dislocated landscapes, rooting in the inbetweeness of distance as space for reflection. They graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Film in 2021. Her personal works have been shown in various film and art exhibitions around Canada, notably including Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Pleasure Dome (Toronto), and The Cinematheque. As a visual and Multimedia artist, she has exhibited at grunt gallery, James Black Gallery and Massy Arts Gallery, and created works through residencies with Media Arts Committee’s Sound Art Residency, Vine Arts Festival, and UNIT/PITT. She is also an editor and a visual researcher and a frequent collaborator of the NFB, Canada Council, Chinese Canadian Museum, and Richmond Museum and Archives.
Luis Andrés Serrano is an interdisciplinary Latino artist residing in Surrey, BC. Serrano predominantly works through the context of memory, play, textures and systems. His current obsession lies in mapping, revisiting and re-contextualizing his memory and the surrounding memories that overlap with his own. Serrano visually gravitates towards layered and semi-distinguishable locations in his works to explore complex personal memories he aims to imperfectly recreate. His work has been screened at Gallery Gachet and XINEMA, and exhibited at the James Black Gallery.
Ogheneofegor Obuwoma (she/they) is a Nigerian artist, writer, and arts worker, currently Assistant Curator, Engagement at the Belkin. Obuwoma’s practice is grounded in traditions of care and reimagination and their work emerges from an investigation of questions around the body and the spiritual. Obuwoma has shown work at galleries and film festivals, and their writing has been published on Akimbo and independently. Obuwoma graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Film and Communications.
As part of the Belkin’s outdoor screen exhibition On Home and Haunting, please join us for a talk with two of the exhibiting artists, Hân Phạm and Luis Andrés Serrano, centred around their respective films, Once Upon a Time (2020) and Homebody (2024). The conversation will be moderated by curator Fegor Obuwoma.
The artists’ experimental film practices will be explored in regard to how they work between memory and video, translating lived experience and history into compelling visual work. In relation to the archive, the discussion will also touch on their works’ connection to the exhibition theme of home and haunting.
Hân Phạm (Phạm Thụy Mai Hân) is an emerging Vietnamese filmmaker and visual artist from Saigon, Vietnam. Working with experimental haptic video/film, photography, and soundscape, Hân’s works think through the impermanence of memory, language, and history in relation to the constantly changing and dislocated landscapes, rooting in the inbetweeness of distance as space for reflection. They graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Film in 2021. Her personal works have been shown in various film and art exhibitions around Canada, notably including Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Pleasure Dome (Toronto), and The Cinematheque. As a visual and Multimedia artist, she has exhibited at grunt gallery, James Black Gallery and Massy Arts Gallery, and created works through residencies with Media Arts Committee’s Sound Art Residency, Vine Arts Festival, and UNIT/PITT. She is also an editor and a visual researcher and a frequent collaborator of the NFB, Canada Council, Chinese Canadian Museum, and Richmond Museum and Archives.
Luis Andrés Serrano is an interdisciplinary Latino artist residing in Surrey, BC. Serrano predominantly works through the context of memory, play, textures and systems. His current obsession lies in mapping, revisiting and re-contextualizing his memory and the surrounding memories that overlap with his own. Serrano visually gravitates towards layered and semi-distinguishable locations in his works to explore complex personal memories he aims to imperfectly recreate. His work has been screened at Gallery Gachet and XINEMA, and exhibited at the James Black Gallery.
Ogheneofegor Obuwoma (she/they) is a Nigerian artist, writer, and arts worker, currently Assistant Curator, Engagement at the Belkin. Obuwoma’s practice is grounded in traditions of care and reimagination and their work emerges from an investigation of questions around the body and the spiritual. Obuwoma has shown work at galleries and film festivals, and their writing has been published on Akimbo and independently. Obuwoma graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Film and Communications.
From 11 August until 3 September 2025, the Belkin's outdoor screen will show On Home and Haunting; a film program featuring three short films by Hân Phạm, Adam Garnet Jones and Luis Andrés Serrano.
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