Elysa Wendi
Elysa Wendi is a filmmaker, artist, and curator whose practice spans performance and the moving image. Preoccupied with the abstraction of memory from place, time, and biographical traces, Wendi examines these themes in her live and filmic works. Straddling the amorphous boundaries between borders, languages, and cultural practices, she works through hybrid documentary projects, audiovisual essays, and meta-choreographic rituals to explore the auto-fictional narratives of bodies and movements. In 2015, she co-founded Cinemovement with film producer Jeremy Chua, a platform facilitating trans-disciplinary film creation through laboratory settings in different cities across Asia. She has served as festival curator for Jumping Frames Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival since 2021.
- Known for
- Directing
Known for
- As I Imagine My Body Moving (2022) — The Dancer
- Room 404 (2023) — Director
- Police Report 2014 (2015) — Producer
- A Missing Scene from Floral Princess: An Untold Suicide of the Last Ming Emperor (2023) — Co-Producer
- Stay If You Can / Go If You Must (2020) — Director
- Someday I Will Become a Rock (2019) — Director
- Afar (2023) — Producer
- On Memories of Countless Days Away (2026) — Director