The Cinematheque

In Person: Erica Sheu

“Erica Sheu portraits an attempt to the perpetual, as an impulse of desire that arises to grasp life and love in a condensed light phenomena.”

Ivonne Sheen, Desistfilm

Collect, release, fall, rise—gestures that echo through the cyclical process of making, remembering, and becoming. In this program, Iris Film Collective presents eight short films and expanded-cinema works by LA-based, Taiwanese artist Erica Sheu (徐璐). Shaped by her Asian-American experience of migration, Sheu’s works move through ritual, routine, and resilience, finding comfort in familiar spaces, textures, and materials. Light flickers, shadows, and refractions that are present within her studio, domestic, and natural surroundings guide viewers through intimate familial and historical reflections. These aspects shape and hold the filmmaker’s engagement, where the act of creation becomes a form of communion with place, family, and the self. This program invites a closer look at how vulnerability takes form through process, and how instinct becomes a method of understanding, revealing the quiet ways memory, identity, and connection unfold on screen.—Sidney Gordon, Iris Film Collective

It follows It passes on
撿起放下墜落提起
USA/​Taiwan 2022
Erica Sheu
10 min. 16mm

A Short History
短短的歷史
USA 2017
Erica Sheu
3 min. 2 × 16mm performance

the way home
USA 2018
Erica Sheu
3 min. Digital

Transcript
臨摹
USA 2019
Erica Sheu
3 min. 35mm

pài-la̍k ē‑poo
拜六下晡
USA 2020
Erica Sheu
2 min. 16mm

birthday song
USA 2021
Erica Sheu
3 min. 16mm

off (I don’t know when to stop)
USA 2021
Erica Sheu
3 min. Digital

exquisite tension
USA 2023
Erica Sheu
10 min. 3 × 16mm performance