Hot off the Press! We are thrilled to share amazing news!
Lesley Loksi Chan’s documentary Lloyd Wong, Unfinished (2025, 28 mins.) just screened at the Berlinale—and was awarded the Teddy for Best Short Film! (It is queer cinema’s Oscar.) The film was also awarded the Golden Bear for Best Short Film by the Berlinale’s International Short Film Jury. Congratulations Lesley, and thank you for your unique restoration of this ‘lost tape’ of Lloyd Wong’s from 1991.
This project is uniquely situated in the A/CA network. It was originally brought forward as a “long lost” archival find by the ArQuives. Ryan Conrad presented it at Fantastic Finds at the 2021 Archive/Counter-Archive Annual Symposium: “Orphaned footage potentially from Lloyd Wong’s ‘An Other Country’ a tape he was commissioned to make for the Toronto Living With AIDS (TLWA) community cable series in 1990, but never completed. Footage includes numerous takes of Lloyd in hospitals or doing various things with an IV setup.”
The film started as a project in the Viral Interventions program created by A/CA member John Greyson and Sarah Flicker that, since 2020, has commissioned artists, activists, and scholars to collaborate on making new films about living with HIV today. Through an exploration of Wong’s raw footage, Lesley’s project tells the story of a filmmaker in the process of creating a film, and who didn’t have the chance to finish it. Lesley’s film has been described as a “haunted archival restoration/deconstruction of Lloyd Wong’s ‘lost’ 1991 TLWA tape.”
As part of the 2021–2022 Viral Interventions cohort, Lesley presented Unfinished as a work in progress at Viral Interventions, at the US premiere of Viral Interventions at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives in June 2022, and the 2024 Viral Interventions Conference.
Here is an interview with Lesley at the Berlinale, Interview with Lesley Loksi Chan, "LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED"
And, the trailer for Lloyd Wong, Unfinished: