Running Time: 4 min.
Synopsis: A short film about a bus ride.

Writer/Director: Eric Cho
Country: US
Running Time: 3 min.
Synopsis: A romantic encounter between two youth and the voice of the legendary musician, Nat King Cole. In three short minutes, this lush, Edwardian fantasia celebrates nature, poetry, and queer-transgender desire.

The Heart’s Mouth video installation was commissioned by the San Jose Museum of Art for the exhibition “This/That: New Stories from the Edge of Asia,” February 21, 2013 through September 15, 2013.

Media: Table, Silkscreened Tarot Cards on Blocks of Wood, Croquet Objects

Through chance, play, a sense of mystery and even a puzzle, I am fascinated by how games hold the power to innocently yet deeply grip people, calm them, excite them, and possibly heal. By delineating a sacred, poetic space for a ritual participation in art, THE SUMMER: A READING FOR LOS ANGELES is a sculpture of healing for the entire City of Los Angeles through the mysteriously ordered, ludic structure of a tarot card game.

THE SUMMER first exhibited in 2010 at the Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles as part of Grow, a group exhibition themed around social change and "creatively solving what ails our contemporary existence, starting with our own backyards." Inspired by personal and psychic experiences in homes and their surrounding geographies, each tarot image corresponds to a friend in Los Angeles who opened up their home to me when I needed a place to crash.

"And don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven...'cause it hasn't." - Bugs Bunny

Media: Site-specific animation installation

Broadcast for decades long after they were first released, Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons were presented on television alongside contemporary animated programming for children well into the 1990s, before they were packaged as classics in the 2000s. This video installation explores how American animation from the 1930s-1940s play a large role in children's absorption of the narratives, characters, genre conventions, and erotic fantasies of classic Hollywood cinema.

Designed as a temporary, site-specific video and sound installation within a Los Angeles apartment residence constructed in the 1930s, MONSTER is made up of two parts: (1) a looping video projected along the walls of a long, dark hallway leading to a green-tiled bathroom; (2) a looping video screened on a television monitor, set amongst perfume-y powder room objects. All found footage is sourced from a 1946 Warner Bros. animation, Hair-Raising Hare directed by Chuck Jones. 

Running Time: 3 min.
Country: US
Synopsis: A 2006 music video for the darkwave band Addicted2Fiction's song MECHANICAL GADGETS, released with their self-titled LP on Ernesto Foronda's Heartcore Records.

Running Time: 11:50 min.
Country: US
Year of Production: 2004
Synopsis: Franz' dream is to attend a real art school. He draws religiously and packs his sketchbook with anatomy studies in preparation for Portfolio Day. Will the inscrutable Professor pass or fail him?

Featuring the high school sketchbooks of artist Mario Ybarra, Jr. and original music by Anna Sew Hoy & Giles Miller, School Boy Art is an early queer Asian American experimental film, part of the 2nd gen of “Bad Asians,” a term introduced by film scholar Eve Oishi to frame a current of new works in the 80s and early 90s.

In 2015, film curator Leeroy Kun Young Kang adopted Oishi’s framing, and programmed the film in “Bad Asians Part One + Deux!”, a short film program at the Stonewall Inn, as part of Dirty Looks on Location: A Month of Queer Interventions in New York City Spaces.

"School Boy Art and We Got Moves You Ain't Even Heard Of...constitute smart, irreverent interventions in academic and activist debates about racialized sexuality, (trans)gender politics, and historical trauma. One of the most impressive achievements of Eric’s work is its examination of the role of negative affect (e.g. shame, humiliation, loss, anger) in constituting minoritarian subjecthood and agency."

- Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation

Running Time: 20 min.
Synopsis: In a dream state, IN has left her home in present-day Koreatown, L.A. for a secret world filled with ancestral ghosts and references, both fantastic and real.

Our Cosmos Our Chaos is an experimental stop-motion animation that explores the connection between mystical practice and social resistance, telling the story of IN, an androgynous character mired in Korea's turbulent history and animistic traditions. The piece toured North America and South Korea between as part of Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and The Forgotten War, a multi-media exhibit that explores memories and legacies of the Korean War.  Our Cosmos Our Chaos has also exhibited as a five-channel video installation entitled Ghost War (Slanguage Studio, Wilmington) and Would-be Ghost War (Cal Poly Pomona University Gallery).

“A giddy gender-bending send up of The Karate Kid..."  - The Village Voice

Running Time: 10:35 min.
Country: US
Synopsis: A young Korean American takes a journey into Macchio’s pin-up androgyny and Hollywood’s All-American underdog fantasies.

"Like the visual substitutions enacted by the video, We Got Moves identifies teen fan culture as the space of queer subversion.” - Eve Oishi, Claremont Graduate University

Writer/Director: Eric Cho and The Invisible College
Running Time: 8:50 min.
Country: US
Synopsis: March against Police Brutality, 1998, Los Angeles, CA.
Archival Notes: The film is intentionally silent for the first minute. Images and sound were recorded on location in Los Angeles on B/W Super-8 film and Hi-8 NTSC Video. Post-production was completed at UC Irvine's VideoLab on a 3/4 inch deck-to-deck analog system. Titles, graphics, and fx were created through a Video Toaster. The master cut exists on a 3/4-inch tape. The video above was digitized from a Hi-8 dub. A couple seconds of audio cut off at the end.