Allison Chhorn
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Allison Chhorn is a Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist living on Kaurna Land (South Australia). Her work explores the effects of migrant displacement and post-memory through impressionistic forms, often with other family members as subjects.
Since graduating with Honours in painting at UniSA in 2014, she has made numerous films including ‘Blind Body’, ‘Missing’ and ‘The Plastic House’. The latter was filmed on her family’s farm and has screened at MIFF, New York Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Her films were also screened as part of a retrospective at the 11th Cambodian International Film Festival.
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Crossing into the gallery, she received the 2022 Porter St Commission from ACE Gallery to make her first solo exhibition and multi-channel installation ‘Skin Shade Night Day’ which was exhibited as part of The National: Australian Art Now at MCA in 2023.
Known for
Stanley's Mouth
October 20, 2015
Blind Body
April 17, 2021
The Plastic House
September 9, 2021
Missing
June 30, 2021
Skin Shade Night Day
August 9, 2022
Youth on the March
October 13, 2017
Last Time
October 14, 2018
Dissolve the Walls
June 20, 2025
Looking at You Looking at Me
November 13, 2025
Mystic Park
Lost In The Water
August 10, 2026
Fruit Tree Sun
March 5, 2026
Behind the camera13
- 2026Lost In The Water Director, Cinematography
- 2026Fruit Tree Sun Director
- 2025Looking at You Looking at Me Editor
- 2025Dissolve the Walls Director
- 2022Skin Shade Night Day Director
- 2021The Plastic House Director, Sound Designer, Cinematography, Music, Editor
- 2021Missing Director
- 2021Blind Body Director
- 2018Last Time Editor, Director, Cinematography
- 2017Youth on the March