Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen are a Singaporean filmmaker and artist duo. Their films explore existential anxiety, alienation and histories, often using surrealistic imagery, bizarre narratives and body horror as social commentary.
Their films have screened at international film festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2024, 2023), New Directors/New Films (2023) and BFI London Film Festival (2021). 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 also received the First Prize (Moving Images) of the Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize in 2021.
As artists working across the moving image and sound, Chua and Lam have presented audiovisual and expanded cinema performances utilising 16mm and Super 8 projections, at the Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), ArtScience Museum (Singapore), Oldham Theatre (Singapore) and the National Museum of Singapore. They have also released multiple albums as the art rock duo ARE.
Their feature project in development, The Want, was selected for Berlinale Talents Script Station 2024, Full Circle Lab Philippines 2024, mylab+@Jogja 2023 and Talents Tokyo 2023.