>> STEPHANIE YANG : REEL <<
In addition to working on her own narrative and experimental projects, Stephanie currently works as a gaffer on different independent projects and is looking for additional opportunities to work collaboratively with emerging DPs and directors.
Stephanie Yang is a mixed-race, Taiwanese/European American artist living in Hollywood. She was born and raised in Southern California, dabbled for a few years in Europe, New Orleans and Boston…until throwing down significant roots in San Francisco in 1998. 11 years later, she is finding herself once again flirting with Los Angeles, working for a variety of production companies and organizations.
She sees the world through light and shadows, and loves the process of teaching others to see the myriad nuances of color, temperature, quality and quantity of light as ways to tell stories and discover meaning. As an instructor, she worked most recently with youth through TILT and ARISE high school and film students at SFSDF on lighting design, technique, and video/film production.
She studied french literature + film theory at both UCLA (BA) and Tulane University (MA), and she successfully completed the one-year intensive program at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking in Spring 2007.
Stemming from her experiences of being hapa, much of her work focuses on the amorphous lines that intersect race, identity and self in urban settings. Her films have screened nationwide in a variety of queer, people of color, and Taiwanese-American spaces. Currently, she is exploring interdisciplinary and collaborative projects with artists in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver, digging into metaphors of home, memory and the vulnerabilities of desire.
stephanie is a founding member of shifting narratives, a community of artists in California (primarily Bay Area) who are using narrative and experimental film to challenge dominant cultures and assumptions from a queer and trans perspective.
In addition to making films, stephanie is also a writer, a collage artist and an activist.
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ARTIST’S STATEMENT: I choose the medium of film and video to explore questions of identity, along with the complexity and beauty in multiplicity. my experience as a queer hapa person, as someone who is an edgewalker, is a great influence in my work. I see my films, and the ways that i manipulate light and shadow, as lyrical stories that reach beyond boundaries to flow together images, sound and texture with an intention of offering the spectator a moment to stop, reflect and breathe.
