Fri 29 Aug – Mon 1 Sept 2025
Anafi Island, Greece

I Am Still Here will be shown at the 3rd edition of ANAFIFF as part of a site-specific screening at MADRES — a nightlife venue that was formerly a sheep stable. The programme is rooted in animal studies and reflects on the shifting boundaries between animal and human life by drawing connections between animality, human desire, and the visceral spaces of nightlife.

Thu April 3, 2025
London, Staffordshire St Gallery

Presenting 10 contemporary experimental short films by 10 exciting and emerging filmmakers from around the world. No theme. No rules. Expect a kaleidoscopic night where different ideas, themes, textures, and filmmaking techniques can collide.

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Sun 30 October 2022
Phnom Penh, Photo Phnom Penh

What is the relationship between film and photography? One seems to be about stillness and composition, and the other about movement and montage. Both deal with time, truth, archive, and materiality in different ways. Taking place during the opening week of Photo Phnom Penh 2022, this two-part programme highlights short films and videos selected by Sam I-shan, that explore different aspects of the photographic image and process.

Sun 15 July 2018
Singapore, National Museum

Inspirational Ghost will be screened at National Museum Singapore as part of Singapore Shorts: Official Selection '18.

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Sat 18 February 2017
Chiang Mai, Nimman Film Festival

About Emptiness will be screened at NImman Film Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme of NIFF this year is "Lost & Found", with 4 sub-themes: Culture, Place, Spirit, and Freedom of Expression. The title "Lost & Found" is commonly used to refer to an office in a public building or area where people can go to retrieve lost articles that may have been found by others, usually found at airports, bus stations, schools and police station. Lost and Found in a broader meaning has to do with places, time and motion. In the last decade, the shifting of politics, economics, culture and mobile technology (network, information, and transportation) has been affected and created a new face of Asia.

Sat 26 November 2016
Kuala Lumpur, KLEX – Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival 2016

About Emptiness will be screened as part of Liminal perceptions, an experimental film and video art programme that focuses on the experience of thresholds and liminal states. 9 contemporary artists from Germany present their perspectives on physical, temporal and imaginary boundaries through inquiries on geopolitical and personal conflict areas, otherness and memory.

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Sat 21-Sun 22 May 2016
Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts

About Emptiness will be shown as part of SOMNAMBULES (Somnambulists) at Musee des Beaux-Arts Rennes, France.

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Fri 28 March 2025
Hong Kong, Tai Kwun, Artists’ Book Library

Hong Kong–based artist Sissi Kaplan will present a live performance, 77 Days: I am still here, drawn from her artist book, 77 Days: An Experience Report (2024), at the Artists’ Book Library on the second floor of Tai Kwun Contemporary. The hour-long music and spoken word performance presented with artistic collaborators Sam I-shan (book editor, curator) and Vivian Wang (sound artist), evokes a sense of displacement in space and time, using pre-recorded sounds and readings to establish a tension between the present and the recent past, conjuring memories of isolation, loss, and estrangement stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Fri 24 January 2025
Singapore, Black Axis Studio

A special night of film screenings, readings and live music to celebrate artistic collaborations and friendship, with Sissi Kaplan, Sam I-shan and Vivian Wang.

Sat, 21 September 2024
Phnom Penh, Anti Archive

During the 2020 global pandemic, Sissi Kaplan experienced enforced isolation and personal loss. She turned to reverie, invention and performance to make meaning of these new circumstances. In collaboration with friends, she created the films Under One Moon and I Am Still Here , and the artist book 77 Days: An Experience Report. Souvenirs of a particular moment in worldwide history, these three works are also considerations about what it means to be in the world and to interact with others. Join Sissi Kaplan and Sam I-shan in the presentation of these three works at this special screening, reading and conversational event.

Sat 29 Jun 2024
Taipei, Welcome Lim-Hong Society

Welcome Lim-Kong Society presents Sissi Kaplan — 77 Days: An Experience Report, an afternoon of screenings and readings. 77 Days portrays the artist’s
experience of isolation, as an international traveler, then as a patient confined in hospital rooms and her apartment. Even as her loneliness intersected with great personal loss, she concocted fantasies and performances, giving free rein to both memories and reverie. In the face of enforced and eternal separation, this story reflects the human desire for connection through acts of creation.

Sat 23 March 2024
Hong Kong, The Catalyst

Starting as a personal account written by Sissi Kaplan in isolation, “77 Days: An Experience Report” is now an artist book realised with the support of creative collaborations, and it is also an integral part of the moving image and sound exhibition “Under One Moon”. Join the artist at this reading event to discover together different ways of engaging with the book as a living, variable text.

Sun, 9 June 2024
Asahi Sonoma, Osaka

Tiger Club（寅年クラブ）の朋友であり、香港M+のキュレーターでもあるSilkeの来阪にあわせて、旭荘でイベントを行います。

彼女がアーティスト名義のSissi Kaplanで今年出版した本『77 Days: An Experience Report』のためのポップアップ書店を、6月9日（日）の午後、旭荘で開きます。

Sat, 16 Mar 2024

77 Days: An Experience Report portrays Sissi Kaplan’s experience of isolation, as an international traveller, then as a patient confined in hospital rooms and her apartment. Even as her loneliness intersected with great personal loss, she concocted fantasies and performances, giving free rein to both memories and reverie. In the face of enforced and eternal separation, this story reflects the human desire for connection through acts of creation.

The book is available from this website and in selected book shops.

Sat 1 Jul 2023

‘Inflatables’ is an ongoing photographic series of portraits of covered vehicles in different parts of the world. Under cover, the cars’ make and status symbols are equalised even as their distinct characters remain on display. Deprived of their functional mobility, these objects assert their mysterious presence in the public space. Their enveloping textiles are like skins that transmute their forms and subtly interact with the environment. They breathe, as if inhabited by a soul, the anima, inviting viewers to imagine phantasmagorical projections and observe movement in stillness.

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Tue 21 July 2020

Sissi Kaplan in conversation with Usha for PluralArt Mag. In an interview conducted via a series of emails (the method du jour in these pandemic-stricken times), Sissi introduces us to her art practice, her new film, and why she doesn’t understand the concept of ‘home clothes.’

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Fri 27 March 2020

A conversation between Sissi Kaplan, aka case #362, and Vinita Ramani for Rice Media.

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Tue 31 January 2023

~ ripple_proj is an on-going video stream, generating a ripple of clips focusing on ‘movement’, echoing one another. A project by Expensive to be Poor.