Lam Li Shuen
LAM Li Shuen (1996, Singapore) is a filmmaker and artist based in Singapore. Together with
Mark Chua, they are a duo who met through forming an art rock group and started out making
lo-fi underground films as self-taught filmmakers. Over the years of their partnership, they have
carved out a cinema of speculative fiction and body horror, exploring existential anxiety,
histories and alienation.
Their films have screened at festivals including IFFR (2024, 2023), New Directors/New Films
(2023) and BFI London Film Festival (2021). They are currently developing their second feature Strange Root (Keinginan), which was selected for CineMart 2025 and Berlinale Talents Script Station 2024. They have also presented expanded cinema performances with 16mm and Super 8 projections
in Zurich and Singapore, and released multiple albums as the art rock duo ARE.
Filmography
(all co-directed) Revolution Launderette (2019), The Cup (2020, short), A Man Trembles (2021, short), Chomp It! (2023, short), The Inescapable Desire of Roots (2024, short)
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Lam Li Shuen op IFFR
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Chomp It!
Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen | 12' | Singapore | World premiere
Two crocodile-people are cooling down at a swimming pool. But are they even the same species? -
The Inescapable Desire of Roots
Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen | 6' | Singapore | World premiere
When hair begins to sprout all over a man’s body, his only choice is resistance.