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Haoshu Sascha Deng is based in Chicago, IL. She also considers Boston, MA, and Shanghai, China to be her home. Her creative work engages themes of memory/homesickness, solitude/companionship, and she hopes to reveal hidden inner worlds through a visual/sonic landscape. She is also interested in portraying stories about community building, immigration, and other artists’ practices in her documentary work.  Outside of creating, she is passionate about education and youth development. She is a 2024 Marwen Emerging Teaching Artist, 2023 NU Public Interest Program Fellow, and has worked at My CHI. My Future., a mayoral initiative in the City of Chicago - Mayor’s Office, and 826CHI, a non-profit that provides tuition free creative writing programing and publishing.






 Date
Project TitleStatus
2023
Tunnel VisionFilmmakerFinished
2024idontcarewhatcomesnext (album cover)IllustratorFinished
2024poison (music video)
DirectorFinished
2024Hyacinth (Animation)IllustratorIn progress
2024Bowling Alone (Header Illustration)
IllustratorFinished
2024 Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras Spring 2024 (Poster Illustration)
IllustratorFinished
2024 New_ Public Public Spaces Incubator (Social Media Video)AnimatorFinished
2024
Arm & A Leg (Short Film)DPFinished


2023
Humdrum Ecstasy (Short Film)
DirectorFinished


2023
DREAMLOGIC (Short Film)DPFinished




Haoshu Sascha Deng
denghaoshu@gmail.com
filmmaker, multimedia artist, designer
Tunnel Vision (Short Film)
Tunnel Vision is a micro-short of scenes in transition shot on super 8mm.

Official Selection Midwest Film Festival 2024
Official Selection Cariño Festival de Cine 2024

sunshy idontcarewhatcomesnext (album cover)Illustrated album cover design (mock-up)

sunshy - poison (music video)Music video for sunshy’s single “poison”; retrofuturism, kinetic typography.

Listen to the song:
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music

Press: 
Post-trash
Start Track



Hyacinth (Animation)Animated music video for Hyacinth


Bowling Alone (Illustration)Illustration for New_ Public’s newsletter on Robert Putnam’s book “Bowling Alone”, discussing the decline in American social capital and the ways local online forums could solve the issue of social mistrust and isolation.



CYSO Spring PosterThe Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras presents two concerts at Symphony Center every year. In Spring 2024, the finale of the concert was Stravinsky’s Petrushka. This design depicts the ballet’s story and its three main characters in a modernized paper-cut style that evokes the russian ballet stage. 


New_ Public PSI Social Media Videos New_ Public’s Public Spaces Incubator works with international public media broadcasters including CBC/RadioCanada, ZDF, SRG SSR, and RBTF to build prototypes that promote public and civic conversation. These videos serve educational purposes that demonstrate design principles behind the three 2024 prototypes: “Comment Slider”, “Representing Perspectives”, and “Public Square”

Arm & A Leg (Dir. Sam Clayton)Arm & a leg is a story of impassioned, clumsy rebellion against the unspoken rules of contemporary bourgeois life. April's behavior is a radical attempt to poke holes in the concept of "normalcy," an earnest effort to re-introduce a personal sense of embodiment, and a sort of allergic reaction to the illusion of happiness that is her life. Arm & a leg examines the spiritual costs of pursuing a comfortable life, and imagines an unusual way of finding out what really matters. Greek Weird Wave meets Glenview, Illinois.

Directed by Sam Clayton
Produced by Tristan Baumeister and Madie Giaconia

Humdrum Ecstasy (Short Film)Humdrum Ecstasy is a short narrative film directed by Haoshu Deng and produced by Andrew Kline and Sophie Pedro Torres. The film features cinematography by Mia Mylvaganam and stars J.G. Singhal.