Allison Chhorn

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Place of Birth Australia

Allison Chhorn

Biography

Allison Chhorn is a Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist living on Kaurna Land (South Australia). Her work explores the effects of migrant displacement and post-memory through impressionistic forms, often with other family members as subjects. Since graduating with Honours in painting at UniSA in 2014, she has made numerous films including ‘Blind Body’, ‘Missing’ and ‘The Plastic House’. The latter was filmed on her family’s farm and has screened at MIFF, New York Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Her films were also screened as part of a retrospective at the 11th Cambodian International Film Festival. Crossing into the gallery, she received the 2022 Porter St Commission from ACE Gallery to make her first solo exhibition and multi-channel installation ‘Skin Shade Night Day’ which was exhibited as part of The National: Australian Art Now at MCA in 2023.

Known For

Director

2022
2021
Blind Body

as Director

2021
Missing

as Director

2021
The Plastic House

as Director

2018
Last Time

as Director

2015
Unslept

as Director

Editor

2021
2018
Last Time

as Editor

2017
2015
Stanley's Mouth

as Editor

Sound

2021
2021
The Plastic House

as Sound Designer

2017

Producer

2017
Youth on the March

as Producer

2015
Stanley's Mouth

as Producer

Crew

2021
The Plastic House

as Cinematography

2018
Last Time

as Cinematography

Writer

2015
Stanley's Mouth

as Writer

Actor

2021