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
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
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.