Alyssa Loh

BIOGRAPHIE

Alyssa Loh is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. She was a 2021 Sundance Lab Fellow and Sundance | Alfred P. Sloan Development Fellow. She was recently selected for the 2023 TIFF Breakthroughs program and the 2023 Wscripted Cannes Screenplay List. She holds a joint MBA/MFA from NYU, where she was a winner of the 2022 Purple List, and the recipient of the Martin E. Segal Production Award, Roger King Finishing Award, Riese Production Award, Faculty Commendation in Filmmaking, and Screenwriting Craft Award. She has a BA from Princeton in English and creative writing, where she won the Ward Mathis Prize for best short story, and was selected by Toni Morrison for participation in her Atelier program. She was also the two-time recipient of the university’s Outstanding Work award for her fiction. Her essays on technology, surveillance, and visual culture have appeared in Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The American Reader. She sits on the Editorial Board of the history journal Lapham’s Quarterly, and has held creative residencies at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT), the Watermill Center (Southampton, NY), and Mildred’s Lane (Beach Lake, PA). In 2021, she co-created the experimental film series Twelve Theses on Attention for the Glasgow Biennial. The book version (text & film stills) was published by Princeton University Press in the spring of 2022. Her critical and creative work frequently explores the abuse of power, on scales large and small: governments in relation to citizens, corporations in dealings with consumers; but also among friends, within families, between lovers. Her film work runs the gamut — from intimate contemporary stories to sweeping historical dramas, from horror to experimental.

FILMOGRAPHIE