Yves Gore

Born in Kuching, Borneo Island to two architects, Yves Gore is a Chinese-Malaysian raised in New Zealand and based in Los Angeles. She started in theatre as a writer-director, creating 2-hour scifi-fantasy musicals financed by New Zealand government's funding bodies like Arts Alive, Creative New Zealand and NZ Lottery Grants. Her vision was to allow individuals of disability to participate in regular stage plays and have successfully cast them as guest actors into her projects. This empowered these individuals and parents with new confidence, who thought handicap limits one's ability for social normalization. Concurrently, wanting to play with a medium that allows a fluid editing of time, Yves Gore decided to make her first film, Gobio Gobio (2008), a short about a lover contemplating the details of his grieving process on his dead wife. This project got the attention of a group of biological students who approached Gore to write and direct a science competition video The Green Gets Going (2010), explaining the benefits of antioxidants on cellular health. The short won second place and Yves Gore realized she has a natural grasp on presenting scientific material. Her next project Cavity (2011) a zombie experimental short was the project that cemented her acclimation for scifi-horror and experimental works. Because of her ability to work with large crew and people of wide social backgrounds, Gore was also invited by her local university's engineering and health science department to write a story for a game to be installed in MRI machines, her sister - an electrical engineer - being the chief designer. In 2011, when Frank Fu invited Yves Gore to act in a side role on his film, You Know Nothing About Me (2011), it became the beginning of their long collaboration. Frank Fu started to cast Yves Gore as the lead actress in his films, appreciating her characteristic face, ability to speak multiple languages and openness on screen. They went on to collaborate on his debut feature, Orange Confucius (2016), an experimental docufiction that intimately follows their relationship, along with his next two films, Whiskey Tango Forest (post-production) and Shadows Between Rocks (pre-production). Besides producing and acting in independent cinema, Yves Gore is developing her first biopunk novel. In early 2016, Yves Gore and Frank Fu embarked on a performance art and film tour called "Cinematic Live Performance", which kickstarted in Europe, then New York and Los Angeles. The tour involves them doing a series of performance art in galleries and public spaces and as well, an anthology of their films presented at film festivals that have invited their works.