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RONNIE CHENG 鄭芷路.
FILMMAKER/ANIMATOR. MEDIA ARTIST. WRITER. PHOTOGRAPHER.
Ronnie is a Hong Konger interdisciplinary artist based in British Columbia, Canada.
Ronnie’s interest in the arts stems from a love for people, and thus, from values of community care, decolonization, and radical kindness. Thematically, Ronnie takes an interest in subjects such as: the Hong Konger identity, queerness, migration/diasporic experiences, climate justice, archives, death (and by association, life), water and fluidity, and loss.
Ronnie mainly operates out of the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Featured Work
the lights will take you home 隨光尋家 — 2024
4:37-minute media art installation
Capstone project for the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) Bachelor of Media Studies program
Exhibited at Context Not Included (April 19-26, 2024)
Recipient of the 2024 Creative Studies Bachelor of Media Studies Award
In the Doorway — 2024
augmented reality public installation
Artist-research piece for The AMP Lab at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus)
Becoming Queer Joy — 2023
short documentary | Premiered at the 2023 Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Official Selection for the 2023 Boise International Short Film Festival, the One Fluid Night Film Event, the 2023 Queerfilmfestival Weimar, the 2024 ReelOut Queer Film Festival, the 2024 Vierte Welle Festival, the 2024 Bifocal Film Festival, and the 2024 Student Okanagan Film Festival
Featured in Otherness Archive
nothing (everything) — 2023
short animated film | Best Animation at the 2023 Student Okanagan Film Festival, Official Selection for the April 2023 Denver Monthly Film Awards
Explore an overactive, racing mind through a first-person perspective. With every thought flying by too quickly to process, is one thinking about nothing or everything?
