Loo Zihan

Loo Zihan / Embryo

Zihan’s first passion wasn’t filmmaking, but rather - graphic design. He enrolled into Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts after completing Junior College determined to become a Creative Art Director.

In 2005, Zihan made the decision to transfer to Nanyang Technological University’s new School of Art, Design and Media to become part of its pioneer batch of students. Somewhere along the way in Foundation year, Zihan got bitten by the filmmaking bug and has never looked back since.

Zihan is currently completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Digital Filmmaking) in NTU.

Festival Screenings / Awards :
- 5th Singapore Short Cuts, 2008.
- “Painkiller for my Foreign Body” by Asian Film Archive, 2007.
- 4th Singapore Short Cuts, 2007.

Director’s Statement:
EMBRYO was devised with its performer, Ruby Pan. We drew on a process of stream-of-conciousness association and working with the space on location. Ruby provided a piece of text and talked about an initial performance she staged as part of her course in university. I was interested in capturing that performance and giving it an alternative intepretation, EMBRYO was a result of this process.