Allison Chhorn
Born in 1992, Allison Chhorn is an Australian-Cambodian multidisciplinary filmmaker and artist. Her work explores themes of migrant displacement, trauma and the repetition of memory. She has made numerous short films, site-specific video installations, and documentaries, including Close Up (2015), the short fiction film Last Times (2018), The Plastic House (2019) and Blind Body (2021), in which she paints a moving portrait of her grandmother. Her work has been shown at Visions du Réel, the Melbourne International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
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The Plastic House
A young woman constructs a reality for herself by imagining what her life would be like after the death of her parents. Absorbed in the slow process of working alone in the family greenhouse, she relives the ghostly memories of her Cambodian mother and father. The ritual of healing through physical labour is gradually revealed over time. As the plastic roof above her bears the weight of the nat...
The Plastic House
A young woman constructs a reality for herself by imagining what her life would be like after the death of her parents. Absorbed in the slow process of working alone in the family greenhouse, she relives the ghostly memories of her Cambodian mother and father. The ritual of healing through physical labour is gradually revealed over time. As the plastic roof above her bears the weight of the nat...
