Emoumie is an independent film production studio based in Singapore, started by Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen. Our intention is to craft fiercely independent films and works that challenge and reinvigorate perspectives.
We want to uncover ways to see with courage:
wildly, unapologetically, freely.
Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen are a filmmaker and artist duo from Singapore. They 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 international film festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2024, 2023), New Directors/New Films (2023) and BFI London Film Festival (2021). In 2021, with their short film A Man Trembles, they were awarded Best Southeast Asian Director at the Singapore International Film Festival. They are currently developing their feature project, Strange Root (Keinginan), which was selected for Berlinale Talents Script Station 2024, Full Circle Lab Philippines 2024, mylab+@Jogja 2023 and Talents Tokyo 2023.
Chua and Lam have also presented 16mm expanded cinema performances in Zurich and Singapore, and released multiple albums as the art rock duo ARE.