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Refrigerator hum

Indonesian Premiere

15 minutes | 2025 | USA | Experimental  | 🔊 Mandarin Chinese, English | 13+

Synopsis
Sinopsis

An artist collects and processes images of their mother’s restaurant kitchen and their grandmother’s daily life, reanimating memory and embodied knowledge through various image formats: 35mm portraits on oscillating lenticular prints, laserjet prints of 35mm film transferred onto 16mm loops, and photographic prints on polystyrene. An intergenerational critique unfolds.

Schedule
Jadwal

Fri, 5 Dec 2025 | 18:45 | EMPIRE XXI | Premiere

Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
jade wong

jade wong

Jade Wong 黃品蓉 is an artist-filmmaker, healer, and cook born and based on unceded Duwamish land (Seattle, WA, USA). They are deeply informed by their family’s history in restaurant work, in their role as a caretaker for their grandmother, and in the networks of care and resistance developed amongst their queer kin. Their work has been showcased at ICDOCS, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Strangloscope Film Festival, Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Onion City Film Festival, and Human Resources Los Angeles.

Credit
Kredit
Production Company
ProducerRana San, Derek Edamura
DirectorJade wong
Scriptwriter
Cinematographer
Production Designer
Editor
Main Cast– 
Director’s filmography
  • refrigerator hum (2025)
  • aromatics of longing (2021)
  • THE MOST SATISFYING VIDEO IN THE WORLD ☁☁☁☁ (2017)
  • How to Cook a Wasp (In progress) 
Notable Achievement
  • Best of the Fest (ICDOCS, Iowa City, USA)
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