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AILEEN YE
Film Director 

Work ↓  
SELECTED WORKS


HOW TO DANCE (2026), SHORT


SUN MOON RISING (2026), INSTALLATION



MIDNIGHT RISING (2024), DOC
 


FIRST BREATH (2023), MUSIC VIDEO



BEAST (2022), SHORT


I DIDN’T DARE TO SPEAK (2021), SHORT











A film director from Dublin exploring contemporary subcultures and the body as a site of resistance.

Her films have internationally screened at BAFTA and Academy-qualifying festivals including BFI London Film Festival, IFFR, and exhibited at venues such as the BFI, Barbican, ICA, LUX, FACT Liverpool, NOWNESS Asia, and Art Rotterdam, winning multiple international awards.  

In 2023/24, she was awarded the Mondriaan Fund, and was a Resident Curator for Eye Filmmuseum.
In 2022, she was selected for A24’s Beyond The Screen programme, and awarded the FOCUS Award by EVCOM for her debut short. 






            


HOW TO DANCE (2026) 
Supported by Mondriaan Fonds
SEE NL 2026 Catalogue
10’ / 16mm-VHS-Digital / Netherlands, UK




When every movement is surveilled, the body learns to speak in new, coded ways.



  Credits:

Director + Editor: Aileen Ye
Cinematographer: Rui Jiang Ong
Dancer: Jordan Achiano
Sparks: Yasha Hennige, Célia Boussebaa
Production Assistant: Negara Faghir
Grade: Studio RM
Colourist: Juliette Wileman
Colour EP: Mike Coley
Colour Producer: Ella Hill
Music & Mix: NAKANO BLU
VFX: Phillip Ochwo
Film Development and Scanning: Haghefilm
Equipment: Maloney Amsterdam, Filmwerkplaats


Sun, Moon, Rising (2026) 
Supported by Mondriaan Fonds
11’ / Three-channel film installation / Netherlands


An exploration of body, heritage, and movement encoded in the natural elements we share.

                   




Credits:

Director: Aileen Ye
Producer: Daisy Corbin O'Grady
Sun / Dancer: Tu Hoang
Moon / Dancer: Jordan Achiano
Rising / Dancer: Faizah Grootens
Director of Photography: Rui Jiang Ong
1st Assistant Director: Mathilde Médard
Assistant Camera: Ian Heijblom
Grip: Jilles van Kleef
Drone Operator: Jilles van Kleef
Production Assistants: Julia Kozakiewicz, Negara Faghir, Yasha Hennige
Portrait & BTS Photographer: Ferdows Faghir
BTS Photographer: Sebastián Vasquez Cipriani

Editor: Sebastian Golos
Music Composition: Madil Hardis
Sound design: Madil Hardis
Sound Mix: Pablo Sanchez
Grading: Karol Cybulski
Grade Studio: Harbor
VFX: Cathal McKeon
Costume: Clara Seidenfaden
Make-up and Hair: Carmelita Matamoros
MUAH Assistant: Alicia Stuifzand
Nails: Bassment Nails
Jewellery design: Yasmijn Quandt / dd103
Catering: Vitor Duarte Lopes
Dance Agency: The Movers Amsterdam
Equipment: Maloney Amsterdam


Midnight Rising (2024) 
Bala Projects and Gorilla Gorilla! Production
8’ / 16mm-S8-MiniDV-Digital / United Kingdom


An intimate portrait of London’s East and South East Asian clubbing community, a world in which the allure of raving, extravagance, and hyperpop becomes an affirmation of love, acceptance, and joy.
 

◇ Brighter Sound x esea Contemporary, Manchester (2025)
◇ Circulo Roto, LAB 111, Amsterdam (2025)
◇ BFI London Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)
◇ Norwich Film Festival, Official Selection, British Shorts Competition (2024)
◇ Leeds International Film Festival, Official Selection, British Shorts Competition (2024)
◇ Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)
◇ Ann Arbor Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)
◇ CinemAsia Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)
◇ Dublin International Film Festival, Official Selection (2024), Award: Best International Short Doc

Credits:

Director: Aileen Ye
Producers: Kamila Serkebaeva, Aileen Ye
Director of Photography: Laura Seward
Editors: April Lin, Aileen Ye
Executive Producer: Dean Beswick, Kamila Serkebaeva
Production Companies: Gorilla Gorilla!, Bala Projects
Participants: David Zhou, Jason Kwan, June Lam, Ms. G
1AC: Alex Tan
2AC: Thomas Rowe
Camera Trainee: Luke De Borde
Colourist: Karol Cybulski
Sound Design: Aileen Ye
Sound Editor and Mix: Joseph Campbell
Sound Recordist: Isabel Sanchez Danieli
Production Assistants: Courtney Brown, Azamat Mukhtaruly
Van Driver: Kay Holden
Music: Animistic Beliefs, LVRA
Archive footage: Song of the Fishermen (1934), Public Domain Archives
Film Processing: Kodak Film Lab London
Film Scanning: Digital Orchard
Camera Equipment: Cameraworks
Colour House: CHEAT
Colour Producer: Dominic Strachan
Special Thanks To: Eastern Margins, Colour Factory, Ben Marshall, Jenny Zhang