miscellaneous

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this is a space for all the projects that don’t fit neatly into “plays” or “poetry,” whatever.

I have begun to realize that I’m a terribly forgetful person

four-color risograph printed zine, bound in a file folder
20 copy edition
March 2025

Recollectors

short film, directed by Ran Ran Wang

Languages and dialects are rapidly dying as globalization makes English the dominant language. Blake, a language archivist, is assigned to the case of Sam, a Chinese speaker whose brain tumor is deteriorating her memory. While Sam confronts the potential loss of her culture and history, Blake is forced to mourn a history that never belonged to her at all. Together, they work to determine what’s truly worth remembering.

Writers: Brian Dang and Ran Ran Wang, Producer: April S. Chang and Vicki Syal, Executive Producer: Stephen J. Seminack, Director of Photography: Zoë Simone-Yi and Konstantin Lyubimov, Editor: Sam Zarrin, Production Designer: Helen Morales, Composer: Jina An, Sound Designer: Kai Scheer, Music: Jina An, Cast: Aina Feng, Andre Hyun, Highdee Kuan, Lorena Russi, Maria Zhang, Miya Kodama, Steven Fong

*Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival May 2025

Dragonfly, Sound Translation

an experimental translation of text to sound for the book launch of Deborah Woodard’s translation of the long poem Dragonfly by Amelia Rosselli, from the Italian
June 2023