Helix Zhang
Directing
Biography
Helix Zhang is a filmmaker from New York. By interweaving slice-of-life scenes with dream sequences, memories, and the digital realm, their work depicts the ebbs and flows of queer existence as taking place in multiple realities. Their short films DOG STORY and SNAKESKIN have screened internationally, including at Queer East in the UK, the San Diego Asian Film Festival, NOWNESS China, and CINEMQ Shanghai. They co-founded the production company Ozu Was Right.
Known For
Feeling suffocated by their environment, Jo finds comfort in acting out fantasies with their confident, edgier friend Lucy.
Dog Story
typhoon diary 风球日记 travels through various dream-states to explore the narrator’s personal connection to rain as a dissociative and liberating force.
typhoon diary 风球日记
A late-blooming Trans woman reluctantly confronts an assigned-male-at-birth Trans specific and life-altering dilemma. With the help of her besties, she attempts to process this debacle in order to determine which path to take on her journey to decolonize her womanhood.