Chiu Quon
Dreamlogic
In Remembrance of a Bottle
DREAMHOTLINE
Shelf Life
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Sunday sites
Frau Fiber (Cinematography & Editing)
Shields/Escudos, Miguel Luciano (Cinematography & Editing)
at Odd Coffee, it's all in the details (Cinematography & Editing)
Movement, monuments (Cinematography)
Paris 1874 teaser (Cinematography)
Master Printmaker Honors Elizabeth Catlett with a Powerful Portrait (Co-Cinematography)
The Creative Power of Devotion (Co-Cinematography)
See a Master Printmaker Create a Stunning Elizabeth Catlett Inspired Woodblock Print, Step-by-Step (Co-Cinematography)
What Do Kids REALLY Think About Art? (Videography & Asst. Production Coordination)
Master Printmaker Honors Elizabeth Catlett with a Powerful Portrait (Videography & Asst. Production Coordination)
The Creative Power of Devotion (Videography & Asst. Production Coordination)
See a Master Printmaker Create a Stunning Elizabeth Catlett Inspired Woodblock Print, Step-by-Step (Videography & Asst. Production Coordination)
What happens if two complete strangers draw each other? (Boom Operation & Asst. Production Coordination)
Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Takes on Pop Art (Asst. Production Coordination)
Inside the Corcoran’s Incredible Art Collection (Asst. Production Coordination)
Shields/Escudos, Miguel Luciano (Cinematography & Editing)
Movement, monuments (Cinematography)
John Jennings reimagines Watson and the Shark (Editing)
Team USA ice skating (Cinematography & Editing)
Frau Fiber (Cinematography & Editing)
Paris 1874 teaser (Cinematography)
A collage film made for Matwaala's Mehfilm Festival.
(photosensitivity warning: contains flicker)
poem: Hands by Sophia Naz
composition: track 8, indigo lake by ballet moshers
mix of archival, digital, 16mm, and super 8 on video
2025
4mins
sound recording & featuring Eli Han
super 8 on video
2025
49sec
Moonlighters #3 2025
A Super 8 postcard of a place. Eli Han stars in this bustling morning scene at a small Chinese bakery in Chicago: Chiu Quon Bakery 超群茶餐廳 on Argyle Street.
Eli and I have been going to Chiu Quon every so often for a few years now, switching colors on the cta for the promise of cheap, cash-only goodies. After I left Chicagoland, Eli moved closer to Chiu Quon, and their bakery visits became walkable and more frequent than "every so often". I visited Eli in Chicago in early 2024 and filmed our visit there.
About a year later, I revisited the footage and asked Eli to record sound for me. They recorded the atmospheric bustle, the sounds of ordering, the crinkle of pastry being packaged. I layered it upon itself, with other things too (there's an easter egg in there for my DC friends). Eli's biggest note when I sent them the first cut was "I miss like... the loud-ass sound of the refrigerators?" So I added it back in, and it felt a lot homier, like how it feels inside Chiu Quon.
Chiu Quon is a film that meshes my senses of home, intertwining who&where I used to be with who&where I am now. No matter how I change, I know I can return to Chiu Quon and enjoy a 叉烧包 (bbq pork bun) that I wish had a little more filling, but tastes like home.
producers Eli Han and İsmet Mert Küçüker
director of photography Haoshu Sascha Deng
composition ballet moshers
starring Jacky Herrera and Maira Walker
16mm color on video
2023
14mins
Kansas City Underground Film Festival 2024
Blow-up Arthouse Film Festival Semi-Finalist 2024
Sweet Void Cinema 2023
While in covid isolation in 2021, I went to the empty park across from my apartment every day at sunset. Over those 10 days, I noticed subtle changes in the landscape - the rapid emergence and life cycle of dandelions, a growing swarm of leafy green weeds, the blooming of small purple flowers in bunches. Much like these elements I wouldn’t have noticed without the recurring trip, in its inception I wanted Dreamlogic to challenge the audience to intensely immerse themselves into a landscape, so intensely that they notice the most subtle of changes, such as the wind displacing hairs. Some parts of the film are more drastic in their movement, but even through the shots with more action, the creeping pace of time is noticeable, daring the audience to give the film their undivided attention. The film carries the audience through waves of sensation, building tension and releasing it with catharsis.
Many of these shots came to me in my dreams, that is, I had an experience from a particular point of view, and once awake I longed to recreate that unique visual perspective for others to see.
Dreamlogic craves to hold your attention, and I hope you'll let it.
(photosensitivity warning: contains flicker)
production Dreamlogic team
16mm color on video
2023
87sec
Rhizome DC x Filament 2024
Sweet Void Cinema 2024
producers Andrew Kline and Sophia Pedro Torres
cinematography Mylvaganam
sound Wes Park
starring JG Singhal and Eli Han
2K B&W
short film
2025
Midwest Film Festival Roadshow 2025
Bronze Age Film Co-Op x Kiosk 2025
producers Shay Park and Stephanie Xu
cinematography Mylvaganam, gaffer Shane Chung
sound Eli Han
starring Mantra Radhakrishnan and Manish Shah
4K color
short film
2025
Chicago South Asian Film Festival 2025
Make News, presented by Minorities in Film, NY/LA/ATL 2025
producers Tanisha Tekriwal and Sofia Veraza
cinematography Mylvaganam and Haoshu Sascha Deng, gaffer Tej Narayanan
4K color, stopmotion
short film
2022
Daily Northwestern article
producers Eli Han and Caroline Bates
cinematography Mylvaganam, gaffer Xanthe Brown
starring Mantra Radhakrishnan and Mirrat
2K color
short film
2022
featuring Eli Han and Mylvaganam
stereo mix
2022
here's one from fall 2023 with my mom:
webpage
2021
color print on white paper with sticker detail
sept 2024
or, contact me for delivery info 💌
Exploratory and expansive, Mylvaganam aims to find hidden worlds in the cracks and glimmers in this one. With a background in computer science, her films and new media work examine digitality and other intimacies. She is currently based in Washington, DC and she likes herself best when she’s passionate.
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