An exploration of connections to heritage in place-making works of history, expatriation, repatriation, family and personal storytelling, through five video practices.

Allison Chhorn acknowledges the distance between first and second generations, imagining a mother and daughter separated decades after the Khmer Rouge drives them from Cambodia.

Audrey Lam's empathetic diary portrait tracks the passage of time after the birth of baby Yoki in a multilingual family in the suburbs of Melbourne.

Justine Youssef and Leila El Rayes appropriate the aesthetics of their beloved childhood video game Mortal Kombat to create a new cast of subversive Arab, queer, female characters in the Western Sydney area.

Katie Mitchell and Sari Braithwaite collaborate with Chinese artist Li Mu to document his romantic, impossible mission to bring Western pop art to his rural hometown of Qiuzhuang, China, against the odds of massive familial and cultural barriers.

Pilar Mata Dupont unravels the mysteries of her matrilineal heritage in Argentina, a settler-colonial state where every family home houses the secrets of dispossession.

Across these works, artistic conventions are broken in the field between contemporary art and cinema, and techniques from documentary filmmaking are brought into video art.

Allison Chhorn
Audrey Lam
Justine Youssef and Leila El Rayes
Katie Mitchell and Sari Braithwaite
Pilar Mata Dupont