Little Chairs, Little Conversations
2024
Documentary / Furniture
7 Minutes
Director / Designer
A set of street chairs and short film, designed in response to a finding trip back to China. Through mirroring a life that could have been by staging conversations with three other Chinese adoptees, this debut short offers a glimpse into the complicated feelings of loss, humour, and community, that emerge within the interracial adoptee community.
Cinematographer: Angel Li
Photographer: Yilin Wong
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"The silliest thing I find so fucking weird is when I go to someone's house, and meet their parents, and they look like their parents. It's freaky! Like, why do you look like your mum? Why do you have her nose? People really laugh at me because I kind of obsess over it" - Esme, Nanfeng, 12 Months
"But why did it take so long? There's a cut off point where you're much less likely to be adopted. When you're already talking, walking. People want babies. To see their first steps. First words. And I was walking, almost started talking. Maybe two more years, maybe even less, I probably wouldn't have been adopted" - Lei-Lei, Hubei, 19 months
"We kind of grew up all knowing that we were adopted, obviously, because we look different. People always ask, but you when did you find out? like, when did your parents tell you? and I'm just like, they never told me, look at us." - Anna, Guangdong, 10 months