Reaproveitando e manipulando imagens de dois filmes clássicos (Spring in a Small Town de Fei Mu, de 1948, e o de Alfred Hitchcock, de 1938, The Lady Vanishes), combinadas com imagens pessoais do cineasta, Mary, Mary So Contrary cria uma narrativa fantasmagórica acerca de uma mulher chinesa chamada Ma Li. Quase todas as noites ou sonha com uma ovelha que teve na infância ou que é uma mulher caucasiana chamada Mary. O realizador Nelson Yeo é um cineasta de Singapura, tendo participado no Berlinale Talents Tokyo em 2014, na BiFan Fantastic Film School em 2015 e na Locarno Filmmakers Academy em 2018. Está, atualmente, a trabalhar na sua primeira longa-metragem.

Repurposing and manipulating images from two classic films drawn from two different corners of the Globe (Fei Mu’s 1948 film Spring in a Small Town and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1938 film The Lady Vanishes) combined with the filmmaker’s own personal images, Mary, Mary So Contrary creates a hallucinatory narrative about a Chinese woman named Ma Li. Almost every night, she dreams of a lamb she had as a child, or that she is a Caucasian woman named Mary. Director Nelson Yeo is a filmmaker from Singapore, and participated in the Berlinale Talents Tokyo in 2014, the BiFan Fantastic Film School in 2015 and the Locarno Filmmakers Academy in 2018. He is currently working on his first feature film.