Ivy Lin Showreel (2010-2024)
Taipei Mama Love (2024, trailer)
The Piano Man (2024, trailer)
waiting..... (2024, trailer
take my hand (2024, trailer)
Oct 14th 2018 (2024, trailer)
Time with Chas (2024, trailer)
sundance (2020)
Last Song of Orenota (2019)
Newfoundland Clavier Chronicle (2019)
2365 6397 (2019, trailer)
Seoul Clavier Chronicle (2019)
coffee is a hug (2019, trailer)
My Piano Teacher (2019)
Four Hands in the Sky (2019)
Clavier Chronicle (2018, trailer)
Bitter Harvest: Brief History of Hops & Brewing in Oregon (2017), short film, 02:36
Bitter Harvest: Chinese Hop Farmer Ah Coe (2017), short film, 05:30
Bitter Harvest: Chinese Hop Farmer Ming Kee (2017), short film, 07:22
Beauty & the Sea (2015), short film, 10 min.
Gift (2016), short film, 10 min.
Clare: a student of horses (2014), short film, 16 min.
My Friends at Puddleduck (2014, trailer)
Portland: Thomas Lauderdale Holiday Sing Along (2014), short film, 07:10
Oslo: I am in love with Operahuset (2013), short film, 02:40
Ballstad: my very first rorbu! (2013), short film, 02:30
London: Salmon Smoker's Piano (2013), short film, 5 min.
Avenue of Roses (2013), Willamette Week, 22 min.
Henningsvær: rainbows all day long (2013), short film, 02:42
Ivyland: O'Mara Meehan Piano Movers (2012), short film, 03:27
Portland Press (2012), product launch video, 02:25
Estacada: John Gilmore, the piano tuner (2012), 06:13
Once Upon a Time in Ladd’s (2011) short film, 38 min.
Come Together Home (2009) feature documentary, 96 min.
Pig Roast & Tank of Fish (2008) feature documentary, 102 min.
Knowing All of You Like I Do (2007) short film, 48 min.
Ivy Lin Showreel (2010-2024)"City I Left Behind" (2010)"Once Upon a Time in Ladd's" (2011)"Clavier Chronicle" (two series of 27 shorts about pianos, 2012-2018)"My solitary journey in Norway" (travel video series, 2013)"Clare: a student of horses" (2014)"Puddleduck" (2014)"Beauty & the Sea" (2015)"Gift" (2016)"Bitter Harvest" (2017)"Seoul Clavier Chronicle" (2018)"Newfoundland Clavier Chronicle (2019)"2365 6397" (2019)"coffee is a hug" (2019)Last Song of Oneonda (2020)"sundance" (2020)"take my hand" (2022)"waiting....." (2022)"Taipei Mama Love" (2024)"Time with Chas" (2024)"October 14th, 2018" (2024)
Taipei Mama Love (2024, trailer)Pi-Liu's life-long mission is to make sure that her only child Ivy eats all the "right foods" to stay healthy, from delivering a freshly-made lunchbox daily to Ivy's school in Taiwan to now, at age of 91, making a mama's dish for Ivy weekly in her adopted home city in the U.S. An immigrant story told through mama's cooking. Ever-lasting taste of Pi-Liu's cooking with her ever-lasting love for her daughter.
The Piano Man (2024, trailer)Pianos outlast people. Piano technician Sam Evans gives ancient pianos a new life so they can resume their former selves and continue to make music & memories for their owners for many generations to come.Sam began working on pianos while he was in high school in 1996. He is a natural-born piano technician with incredible hand craftsmanship that enables him to make agile, precise and dance-like movements with grace at all times.
waiting..... (2024, trailerA tale of time told in the course of 24 hours in four cities - Seoul, Busan, Taipei, Tainan.
take my hand (2024, trailer)We are all going somewhere and searching for something in a dream-like reality. By chance, we travel in the same direction from time to time in the busy web of flow in the metropolis.
Oct 14th 2018 (2024, trailer)October 14th, 2018 would have been the 90th birthday of Papa, who has left his wife & daughter behind and went to heaven 18 years ago. The "left-behind" family of two (Mama and daughter) spent the day in time traveling: remembering Papa, reminiscing old times of living in Taipei and contemplating how their lives would have been if they did not leave Taiwan and emigrate to the U.S. 25 years ago.
Time with Chas (2024, trailer)On March 30th, 2013, piano technician Sam Evans pick up a 5'2" Chas M. Stieff grand piano (circa 1916) at a client's house. Little did Sam know that Chas would end up staying in his piano workshop to witness the hardship & transformation he and his family will experience in the years to come..
sundance (2020)A daily morning routine at a north-facing home from late April to mid-summer.World premiered at NeMaf 2020 Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival,
Last Song of Orenota (2019)A beautiful dialogue between a 7-foot Steinway grand piano, the nature and a historic tunnel on a hot summer afternoon before the tunnel was engulfed by the tragic Eagle Creek Fire in Columbia River Gorge a year later.World premiered at 2019 Oregon Independent Film Festival.IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music in the Wild is an outdoor concert series in stunning landscapes that showcase Oregon industry, history and culture.Oneonta Gorge Tunnel on the Historic Columbia River Highway was built in 1914. It was closed in 1948 and then re-opened in 2009.
Newfoundland Clavier Chronicle (2019)Owning a piano is a huge commitment because a well-cared piano can last 80-100 years. The relationship between a piano and its owner can be rewarding and memorable as time goes by. Clavier Chronicle is a testament of how pianos can impact our lives. Our fascination for pianos is universal and timeless.In 2012, Ivy came across a report in NY Times about a piano moving company in Pennsylvania transporting pianos from households to the community dump. The video footage of pianos being pushed out of the back of the truck and then crash-landing onto the ground drove her to tears! She was then inspired to embark a journey of collecting piano stories during her travels since 2012."Newfoundland Clavier Chronicle" features four piano stories captured during Ivy's first visit in Newfoundland in September, 2016.Watch Clavier Chronicle II (2015-2018) here: https://vimeo.com/channels/clavierchronicle2
2365 6397 (2019, trailer)20 years in the making, "2365 6397" is an intimate portrait of Taipei and its citizens including a small family of three, an only child with elderly parents, who endures the struggle and sacrifices on the journey of emigrating to the U.S. It is also a love letter to lament the pain of up-rooting and the loss of their home in Taipei.
Seoul Clavier Chronicle (2019)Seoul Clavier Chronicle features three piano stories, filmed in Seoul in October 2018.World Premiered at 2019 Jecheon International Music & Film Festival in South Korea.
coffee is a hug (2019, trailer)A much needed hug for a traveler returning to homeland after a long absence.
My Piano Teacher (2019)Li Chin-Li was the most prominent piano teacher in souther Taiwan from 1970s to 2000. Her piano teaching career spanned for 50 years of her life (ages 25-75). She has students all over Taiwan, U.S. and Europe. Teacher Li was my piano teach from 1976-1984 and she has made me the pianist that I am today! Thank you, Li Lao Shi !!!"My Piano Teacher" is one of the 12 piano stories inClavier Chronicle series #2 (2015-2018): https://vimeo.com/channels/clavierchronicle2Clavier Chronicle series #1 (2012-2014):https://vimeo.com/channels/clavierchronicle
Four Hands in the Sky (2019)Lina Yeh & Rolf-Peter Wille are Taiwan's first and most celebrated piano duo since 1978. They are both piano professors at universities. It was my privilege to study piano with Teacher Yeh at National Taiwan Normal University. On November 1, 2018, I had the great honor to film their piano duet practice at their intimate piano studio on a rooftop of a 12-story building in Taipei. The piano studio is surrounded by a rooftop garden."Four Hands in the Sky" is one of the 12 piano stories in Clavier Chronicle series #2 (2015-2018): https://vimeo.com/channels/clavierchronicle2Clavier Chronicle series #1 (2012-2014):https://vimeo.com/channels/clavierchronicle
Clavier Chronicle (2018, trailer)Owning a piano is a huge commitment because a well-cared piano can last 80-100 years. The relationship between a piano and its owner can be rewarding and memorable as time goes by.Featuring 20 pianos in 9 cities and 5 countries including Portland, Sellwood, Estacada, Taipei, Philadelphia, London, Stockholm, Oslo and Lofoten in Norway, Clavier Chronicle is a testament of how pianos can impact our lives.Our fascination for pianos is universal and timeless.Film festival screenings & awards:BEST REGIONAL FILM award, Bellingham Music Film Festival in 2018 (Bellingham, WA, USA)Official Selection, Västerås Film Festival 2018 (Västerås, Sweden)Watch Clavier Chronicle's first series of 12 piano stories here: vimeo.com/channels/clavierchronicle.
Bitter Harvest: Brief History of Hops & Brewing in Oregon (2017), short film, 02:36Bitter Harvest is a series of three videos featuring two Chinese hop farmers in the Willamette Valley in the early 1900s. Bitter Harvest is part of Oregon Humanities “This Land” series of stories about land, home, belonging and identify by Oregon artists of color.Bitter Harvest was commissioned by Oregon Humanities with Creative Heights funds from Oregon Community Foundation.Cheryl Gillson of Rogue Farms talks about the history of hop farming and craft beer in Oregon.
Bitter Harvest: Chinese Hop Farmer Ah Coe (2017), short film, 05:30Bitter Harvest is a series of three videos featuring two Chinese hop farmers in the Willamette Valley in the early 1900s. Bitter Harvest is part of Oregon Humanities “This Land” series of stories about land, home, belonging and identify by Oregon artists of color.Bitter Harvest was commissioned by Oregon Humanities with Creative Heights funds from Oregon Community Foundation.Betty Jean Lee (82-yr-old, living in Portland) tells the story of her grandfather Ah Coe, a well-respected hop farmer who ran a hop farm in Dallas Oregon from 1894-1923. Ah Coe was considered a Polk County pioneer. Yet he could not own the land he farmed due to Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943).
Bitter Harvest: Chinese Hop Farmer Ming Kee (2017), short film, 07:22Bitter Harvest is a series of three videos featuring two Chinese hop farmers in the Willamette Valley in the early 1900s. Bitter Harvest is part of Oregon Humanities “This Land” series of stories about land, home, belonging and identify by Oregon artists of color.Bitter Harvest was commissioned by Oregon Humanities with Creative Heights funds from Oregon Community Foundation.Life on a hop farm (1908-1928) in Willamette Valley narrated by the voice of Ming Kee (recorded in 1982) and illustrated by Kee family photos (1917-1928) captured by Ming's younger brother Bue Kee who became a well-known artist in Portland, Oregon.
Beauty & the Sea (2015), short film, 10 min.An intimate portrait of an elderly Taiwanese immigrant in Portland, Oregon (USA) through a journey at a beauty salon (ABC Salon) and a seafood store (ABC Seafood) next door in the same building located in Portland's culturally diverse Jade District. ABC Salon & ABC Seafood are owned by an immigrant couple who arrived in Portland from Toisan (Guangdong), via Hong Kong, in the mid 1990s."Beauty & the Sea" premiered at 42nd Northwest Filmmakers Festival and won Best Documentary Short Audience Award. It was also an official selection at Våsteräs Filmfestival 2017 in Sweden.
Gift (2016), short film, 10 min.Florence, Oregon was captured through the eyes, ears and heart of a forever grateful guest at Old Town Heather Cottage on Earth Day 2016.In its harmonious yet dramatic flow of elements in the nature and in the way of life, "Gift" is in no need for spoken words.
Clare: a student of horses (2014), short film, 16 min.Clare Painter has 7 horses and 3 dogs. They live on Barefoot Ranch in Omak, WA.A farm girl who turned fisherwoman in Alaska (for 20 years), Clare is now a student of horses and a hoof care specialist in Okanogan County.This is a story about a woman's mission to enhance communications between horses and their owners...good health and happiness for all.music by Asche & Spencer
My Friends at Puddleduck (2014, trailer)When I visited Puddleduck Farm for the first time in March 2013, it was my very first visit to a sheep farm. Puddleduck is a located on a 65-acre land in Brownsville, Oregon. Ingrid & Alan Painter moved to Brownsville 17 years ago and they live happily ever after with two big white dogs (Ursa & Maddie) and 60 sheep on Puddleduck Farm. This is a story of life and friendship on Puddleduck Farm.
Portland: Thomas Lauderdale Holiday Sing Along (2014), short film, 07:10Thomas Lauderdale, the band leader of Portland's famed Pink Martini, hosts an annual holiday party at his resident in downtown Portland. The highlight of this holiday party is the guests sing-along of holiday songs while Thomas plays the piano, of course.
Oslo: I am in love with Operahuset (2013), short film, 02:40Oslo Operahuset is the reason why I started learning Norsk in September 2011 because it represents all things I like about Norsk people, culture and designs.When I visited Oslo for the first time in October 2008, I was blown away by the design of Operaen and the philosophy behind its design. It resembles a snow-covered mountain that slants into Oslofjord. It is a very Norsk design because one can easily find mountains rising above the water in the beautiful Norway.It is a very inviting & democratic design because anyone can walk along the roof (covered with Italian marble & white granite) of this opera house to the rooftop. 24/7.The idea is to make people of all walks of life welcomed with the inviting exterior and hope that people would be interested in attending opera & ballet performances inside of the opera house.I've had the pleasure to enjoy watching an opera and a few ballet performances performed by Den Norsk Opera og Ballett at Operahuset in 2008. In 2013, I’ve also had the privilege to visit the office of Snøhetta who brilliantly designed Operahuset.
Ballstad: my very first rorbu! (2013), short film, 02:30Ballstad is known as the most picturesque fishing village in Lofoten.Mountains rise from the ocean...which is quite common in Lofoten but Ballstad offers different scenery depending on what direction you are facing!In addition to its stunning landscape, I got to stay in a traditional rorbu (fisherman's hut) with the mountain in the back and the harbor right outside of the dining room & bathroom windows!I love the design of this rorbu especially its hallway between the front door and the inner door (that keeps the warmth of rorbu in) where you can shed your oilskins, boots, fishing gears before you enter the living room.I need a rorbu exactly like this one built for me in Oregon...can anyone help? :)
London: Salmon Smoker's Piano (2013), short film, 5 min.Ole-Martin Hansen is originally from northern Norway. He came to London to study sound arts. Ole was having trouble making a living as a sound artist in London. He decided to recreate the exquisite smoked salmon taste that was passed on from his grandfather by building a replica of his grandfather's smoke chamber in Stoke Newington. Since his grandfather said that the salmon is still alive while swinging in the sea breeze because the enzyme travels through the body of the fish due to the movement, Ole decided to serenade his salmons on his piano during the smoking sessions at the smoke house.
Avenue of Roses (2013), Willamette Week, 22 min.Featured in Willamette Week on 2/20/2013.https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20287-avenue-of-the-roses.htmlSE 82nd Ave. is the longest strip mall in the city of Portland.Due to the increase in Asian populations and businesses on SE 82nd in the past 10-20 years, many Portlanders started to call SE 82nd the "new Chinatown".Can we really call this area "new Chinatown" just because there's great Chinese food in SE 82nd?What about businesses and restaurants owned by Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and the Hispanics?What about that Slavic church with the huge movie theater marquee, right on SE 82nd Ave.?In December 2012, I had a chance to zip up & down SE 82nd about 18 times in two days, in order to interview 10 businesses and a couple churches about the changes in SE 82nd in the past 10-20 years.
Henningsvær: rainbows all day long (2013), short film, 02:42October weather in Henningsvær was very unstable: 3 minutes of sun followed by 3 minutes of rain. Sun and rain alternated all day long. One thing you can count on always is the strong wind in Henningsvær because it is located on the southern tip of two islands that stick way out in the ocean!October is a month when there are not many tourists in Lofoten because of the rain and lack of fishermen actions (cod fishing season in Lofoten: November-April).I was happy being the solitary traveler in Lofoten.Just me and the nature. Perfect.
Ivyland: O'Mara Meehan Piano Movers (2012), short film, 03:27O'Mara Meehan Piano Movers, in Philadelphia, is a family business circa 1874. Pianos die earlier on the east coast due to the unstable humidity levels, as well as the downturn of economy that caused downsizing of households and closing of churches and schools. O'Mara Meehan has been specialized in safe and cost efficient commercial, private, institutional piano transport, retail piano home delivery and piano storage for Philly, Jersey and NYC for over a century.
Portland Press (2012), product launch video, 02:25Portland Press, designed by Bucket (bucketpdx.com/)a french press with a mason jar, wooden lid+handle and a wool cozyall parts are made in & around Portland by six manufacturers
Estacada: John Gilmore, the piano tuner (2012), 06:13John Gilmore (gilmoremusic.com/), a Portland-based piano technician and musician, tuning a Mason-Hamlin grand and a J & C Fischer upright at the household of Kathleen Murphy and David Kennedy in Estacada, Oregon.
Once Upon a Time in Ladd’s (2011) short film, 38 min. A short film that tells the little-known history of the Chinesecommunity in Ladd’s Addition, the first Portland neighborhoodthat welcomed the Chinese after the Chinese Exclusion Act waslifted in 1943. The narratives were related through a meetingbetween a young Asian-American woman who was seeking toreconnect with her late father’s family history in Ladd’s Addition,and a Chinese elder whose family was the first Chinese family tomove to the neighborhood.
Come Together Home (2009) feature documentary, 96 min.Filmed in Portland and Hong Kong, Come Together Home is adocumentary about the overlooked history of the first Chineseburial ground in Portland, Oregon, and the final journey home(China) of the remains of Portland’s early Chinese immigrants in1949. Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, for many early Chineseimmigrants, it was the only way to go home.“Portland documentarian Ivy Lin has a patient, naturalistic eye for the boarded-overand fenced-off bits of the city’s history; her camera is an unflashy reservoir of lostplaces.” —Aaron Mesh, film critic, Willamette Week
Pig Roast & Tank of Fish (2008) feature documentary, 102 min. The first-ever documentary to acknowledge the history andlegacy of Portland’s Chinatown, the 2nd oldest and once thesecond largest Chinatown in the U.S. The previously over-lookedhistory was told through interviews with Chinese elders whogrew up in Chinatown. The film also includes rare footage ofongoing cultural & social activities behind closed doors, such as aCantonese opera club circa the 1940s. The film explores reasonswhy Chinatown became such a desolate neighborhood and theongoing challenges the Old Town/Chinatown community hasencountered in their efforts to revitalize the neighborhood.
Knowing All of You Like I Do (2007) short film, 48 min. In the course of its 30 years on NW 23rd Avenue, MusicMillennium’s Northwest store became the heart and soul of theneighborhood. On August 31, 2007, the store closed its doordue to the inescapable fate of an independent record store in thedigital age. The staff had a month to decommission and strip thespace to the bare walls. As a former store employee, I decided todocument the final days of deconstruction and interview some ofthe regulars as they dropped by for the last time.
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