Executive Producer
|
Writer & Director
|
Director of Photography
|
My name is Khoi Ly and I am in love with cinema.
It was love at first sight when I laid eyes on the television screen for the first time when I was a little boy in a small town in Vietnam. My love affair began when I was a little boy. I devoured film the way a gourmand devours food. It didn’t matter what genre or how good the film was: if I had access to it, I watched it. By viewing anything and everything, I learned the art of storytelling. And because I was an avid photographer – thanks to my father who gave me a camera on my eleventh birthday – I focused my attention on the visual aspects of storytelling: the composition of shots, the movements of the camera and the subjects within the frame, the lighting design, the visual palette of scenes and the film as a whole. My knowledge broadened when I entered the Academy of Art University. There I got the chance to use the equipment I had voraciously read about in cinematography magazines. Ever since then I’ve been photographing images and filming personal stories that moved me in some way. My inspiration comes from living my life and traveling to as many new places as I can. What is life and nature, anyway, but one enormous canvas from which to draw inspiration? |