2026 - Time ︎
Director: Keny Chan
Producer: Keny Chan, Nan Sun
Co-Producer: Edlin Jap
Writer: Keny Chan
1st Assistant Director: Nan Sun
2nd Assistant Director: Kareem Jamaal Baholzer
Director of Photography: Terence Li
1st Assistant Camera: Rebeca Alván
2nd Assistant Camera: Sarah Omar
Dolly Operator: Niels Gercama
Gaffer: David Gonzalez Kaff
Key Grip: Nan Sun, David Gonzalez Kaff, Terence Li
Production Designer: Keny Chan Sculpture Artist: Keny Chan, Niels Gercama, Enzo Adrien
Set Dresser: Runzi Luo
Costume Designer: Anton Hargesheimer, Viktor Dietzsch
Stylist: Anton Hargesheimer
Assistant Stylist: Keny Chan
Makeup & SFX Makeup: Runzi Luo
Post-Production/ Editor/3D CGI & VFX Compositing: Keny Chan
Graphic Designer: Michelle Duong
Still Photography: Carl Raabe, Altay Erlik
Set Runner: Bryan Emery
Driver: Niels Gercama
Equipment Rental: UdK Berlin, Dino Berlin
Equipment Consultant: Martin Pflüger
Catering: Edlin Jap, Arunima Thakral, Rivaldo Tobing
Music Written, Produced, Performed, Mixed and Mastered by Keny Chan.
“Time” is a slow-burning art-pop song about an unlived summer of queer teenage love and the refusal to let go. Completed in the summer of 2021, the song became the seed of a wider art world, an audiovisual universe shaped by digital melancholy, nostalgia, personal loss, and the desire to preserve what was never fully lived.
The music film follows Keny as their body and sense of self begin to dissolve beneath an accelerating technological present. Carefully curated erotic images fill the screen, the world around them decays. Keny dreams of eternity. Through an archaic computer, they enter elternal.world: a promise of digital eternal utopia where the past remains fixed and unlived possibilities appear preserved. This world seems to promise an end to absence itself.
The film was created over nearly two years, including a year and a half of handcrafted 3D CGI and VFX work.
2026 - Episode. (1.5)ⁱ: Last Words ︎
Director/Writer/DP/Editor/Sound: Keny Chan
"Last Words" is a four-day art performance, grown as a sub-node and parallel world of Episode 1. The work emerged from the many sudden and ephemeral thoughts that interrupt my daily life: What if my world ends now?
So what if it actually happens? Theoretically, no one knows whether they will open their eyes the next day. The causes could be countless, and eventually one of them will catch up with us. We are simply designed to experience life and death together. Death is as structural as life itself. One may deny it through countless theories, yet the experience of it remains unavoidable. Death is a snail that slowly crawls toward you, and there is nothing you can do but watch it approach.
Crime reports have often noted that fake "last words" are surprisingly easy to identify because they are too coherent and logical. When a person is truly trapped in mental tunnel vision, their words are usually stuttered—simply a stream of consciousness.
Perhaps that is one of the most visceral feelings a person can utter: an unspeakable weight that carries both life and death. Freud famously coined the terms "life drive" (Eros) and "death drive" (Thanatos) as two opposing yet deeply intertwined drives, two sides of the same coin.
Are "last words" the ambiguous threshold between them? If language can mark the passage from life into death, could it also turn my moments of despair toward something else? I started writing my last words on my T-shirts: the words I felt most intensely when I was lonely and overwhelmed, the words I couldn't speak to my friends or even to myself, the words I had always held back. I wanted to give them shape, to watch these undercurrents from within a crusty armor that was both familiar and fatal to me. What happens when I shed these skins of death? Do I simply flip the coin, or do I discover an even deeper structural despair? Or will I learn to coexist with these inevitabilities in life and understand the these thresholds in a new way?
2026 - Episode. 4(-3): The Guardian of Memories ︎
Director/Writer/Animator/Sound: Keny Chan
Lead Actor: Keny Chan
1st AD: Michelle Duong
Gaffer: Nan Jin
Assisting Gaffer: Ben Christ
Asistant: Idil Karaca
Keny temporarily fell into a dream.
A sweet dream of being back at the childhood’s webspace. As keny sinked deeper and deeper into the retro-utopia made of 256 colored glistening pixels, everything that bothered keny in this grey reality just temporarily vanished.
But that dream bursted like a fragile bubble, left keny begging for more. But they were dead, like usual. Just broken files in archived rubbles.
Out of desperation, Keny started to pray to the 3D sculpture on the screen. Why did it have such a mysterious aura? And it felt like, it could take keny back to that world again…
2025 - Transmission 00862064082396 ︎
Director/Writer/DP/VFX/Sound: Keny Chan
Lead Actor: Jey Baholzer
1st AD/1st AC/Actor: Sarah Omar
2nd AD/Actor: Altay Erlik Gaffer: Nan Jin Assistant Gaffer: Eman Safavi
16mm Mentors: Katharina Lüdin, Anna llin
In the year 2067, a lost Nano-Structured-Atomic-Scale Glass was found and decoded by “intertribal artist groups” who had escaped from the dysfunctional tech-oligarchy societies. The encrypted files were created in the last days of the Human Memory Project, before its members were brutally assassinated. One of the first files to be decrypted is a consciousness transmission. The transmission appears to be a series of fragmented life memories about a missing artist, with an image generation method highly aligned with the first-gen AGI that emerged in the 2030s.
2023 - Hourglass ︎
Director, Editor, Colorist, VFX , Co-Production: Keny Chan
Director, Cinematography, Co-Production: Kareem Baholzer
Photographer/VHS Camera: Marbelite
Stylist: Anton
Director’s Assistance: Feli Trotter
Equipment Rental: dino.berlin & Inküle UdK
Music Written, Produced, Performed, Mixed and Mastered by Keny Chan.
In Hourglass, the narrative initiated in 'Be OK' unfolds further. In this chapter, Keny successfully breaks free from the time loop and the ominous confines of the dark bathroom, venturing into the deep forest far away from the urban landscape. In the video, Keny appears as a fairy-like figure, summoning spirits of those who have encountered similar struggles, singing about the healing power of time.
2023 - Be OK (B.O.K) ︎
Director, Writer, Editor, Colorist, VFX: Keny Chan
Director, DOP, Producer: Kareem Baholzer
Body Double, Assistant: Feli Trotter, Amir Mohammad
Assistant: Matthias Brenner
Equipment Rental: dino.berlin
Music Written, Produced, Performed, Mixed by Keny Chan, mastered by Cefe Flynn.
Be OK is Keny Chan’s debut music video. It delves into the symbolism of water, the essence of all carbon-based life forms, and the limitations it imposes on our existence. Inspired by the dual nature of water, the video portrays water as a symbolic deity that holds power of creation and destruction. Through a time loop narrative, it captures the suffocating conflict between introversion and the desire to connect with the outside world.
2018 - Freedom ︎
Director, Animator, Music: Keny Chan
Freedom is a 3D video art project which depicts the anxiety of Keny finding themselves in a dilemma between the selective freedom of the west and the homeland's censorship. It explores the disillusionment of immigrant individuals who discover that the promised liberties advertised in western media may not align with their lived experiences. Growing up looking at the west through the lens of Pop cultures, where such issues were not frequently referred, Keny reflects on the decision to leave the perceived "cage" of their homeland, questioning the true value of their newfound freedom in the face of unexpected realities.