Contemplating Emily, the fifteen-minute film, is a poetic treatment of a feature length screenplay of the same name that tells the East-meets-West love story of a young Taiwanese poet and her New York City English teacher. The story is a romantic comedy - Kissing Jessica Stein meets Lost in Translation dashed with Brokeback Mountain. It explores the complexities of discovering lesbian love the world over.
In the short film, scenes from the feature script were shot on 16mm. They were then artificially book-ended with digitally shot scenes not from the feature designed to give the highlighted material some structure. While the short helps to introduce the principal characters, storyline and nature of the screenplay, it only lightly touches on the potential grandeur of the piece.

"Emily in the mirror"