Music videos She has directed over one hundred music videos and has been a long-time collaborator with popular musician
Faye Wong (王菲) and alternative pop singer
Anthony Wong (黃耀明). Other artists who have collaborated with Susie on more than one occasion include best album selling pop singers;
Jacky Cheung (張學友),
Eason Chan (陳奕迅),
Andy Lau (劉德華),
Joey Yung (容祖兒),
Jeff Chang (張信哲),
Miriam Yeung (楊千嬅),
Grasshopper (草蜢),
Mavis Fan (范曉萱),
F4,
Ellen Loo (盧凱彤),
Tam Wai Wai (譚維維),
Shirley Kwan (關淑怡),
Ivana Wong (王苑之),
Kary Ng (吳雨霏) and more. Her works with Anthony Wong and Faye Wong won her gold awards from the
Chicago International Film Festival.
Faye Wong's
Half Way (半途而廢) won the
MTV Video Music Award.
Mavis Fan's
Why,
Jeff Chang's
True Love (用情) and
Jacky Cheung's
Web of Love (情網) were nominated for the Best Music Video of the year. Susie is now taken as the region's M.V. guru, her visual style is noted for being feminine, and romantic. Also, most of the videos have become the region's karaoke classic; mass culture.
Films Susie founded
Handmade Films to diversify her visual adventure in different forms. She started directing T.V. commercials; mostly about contemporary women's life-style and fashion-oriented. Not only is Susie a rare female director in the region, she is also the first Chinese director to direct
Christian Dior's first-launched T.V.C. in the China market. Susie states her ambition is to create and recreate, enjoys filming on the set and never gets bored in the editing suite. Among all other projects, she inspired the music industry to create various music projects; Susie is a pioneer in music documentaries, collaborating with musicians to create innovative visuals for concerts and experimental films. In 2005, Susie made a forty-five-minute musical film
Moon Wall (牆前明月光); produced by now.com.hk, starring
Karena Lam (林嘉欣) and
Rebecca Pan (潘迪華). Written by
GC Goo-Bi, music by
Peter Kam (金培達). The film premiered at United Artist Cinema at Langham. In 2007, Susie made her first feature debut
Ming Ming, starring
Zhou Xun (周迅),
Daniel Wu (吳彥祖) and
Tony Yang (楊祐寧). The film selected to be screened in Pusan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and
Shanghai International Film Festival, the film gets reviewed as "Run Lola Run meets new generation's wuxia… "; "Ming Ming's world, one which contains fantasy martial arts elements, the magical realism which set in today's contemporary era."
Ming Ming was released in China, Hong Kong and Taipei simultaneously. The film marked an unusual independent film effort to create a China-Hong Kong-Taiwan alliance before the huge film market developed. In 2008, Susie directed a 45-minute short titled
Moving On, in which the scene of
Eason Chan casually humming along the abandoned back in fact expanding on the director's continual themes on nostalgic and alienated emotion to Hong Kong. In 2010, collaborating with pop legend
Faye Wong, Susie created a music documentary titled
Faye Reborn. In 2011, Susie was invited by mainstream director
Jeff Lau (劉鎮偉) to be the music director for
East Meets West 2011 (東成西說 2011). Not only Susie directed a few musical scenes, she has revived the classic songs for film and created an emotional sound track. In 2012, Susie directed and scripted
Beauty University (美麗大學); starring
Shu Qi (舒淇). It is the story written about contemporary Chinese women. It is rarely found in China viro on short drama driven by visuals than dialogue. The film is a visual meditation on the values of modern living and marriage. It is well received in China during the launch. In 2013, Susie is invited by
Juno Mak (麥俊龍) to direct the music video of "Poison Love" with
Zombie Boy (Rick Genest). In 2014, Susie focused on developing her feature film scripts and installation art projects. In 2015, her new film project
Crazy Girls Dancing Club (working title) was selected by
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and invited as a resident artist in Berlin. In 2016, Susie was invited to Berlin by Nipkow Programme as artist in residence to create TV series. In this year, Susie also created and directed a multimedia-dance-theatre
Utopia, Momentarily. Partnering with lyricist
Chow Yiu Fai (周耀輝) and musician
Vicky Fung Wing Ki (馮穎琪), the project was sponsored by Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival, after one and half year's endeavour,
Utopia, Momentarily launched in Kwai Ching Theatre in November 2016. Not only pop singers like
Anthony Wong (黃耀明),
Juno Mak (麥俊龍),
Eman Lam (林二汶) and
Yoyo Sham (岑寧兒) were invited to perform the songs, the project involved many first endeavours for the festival. Not only Susie is the theatre director, she also created and designed all the visuals for the project.
Utopia, Momentarily was highly acclaimed from both the pop and theatre field. ==Filmography==