Director
Nguyễn Trinh Thi
13 films
Nguyen Trinh Thi is a Hanoi-based independent filmmaker and video/media artist. Her diverse practice has consistently investigated the role of memory in the necessary unveiling of hidden, displaced or misinterpreted histories; and examined the position of artists in the Vietnamese society. Nguyen studied journalism, photography, international relations and ethnographic film in the United States. Her films and video art works have been shown at festivals and art exhibitions including Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; the Lyon Biennale 2015; Asian Art Biennial 2015, Taiwan; Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2014; Singapore Biennale 2013; Jakarta Biennale 2013; Oberhausen International Film Festival; Bangkok Experimental Film Festival; Artist Films International; DEN FRIE Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; and Kuandu Biennale, Taipei. Nguyen is founder and director of Hanoi DOCLAB, an independent center for documentary film and the moving image art in Hanoi since 2009.
Best known for
Filmography 13
47 Days, Sound-less
2024 · Director
How to Improve the World
2021 · Director, Writer
Fifth Cinema
2018 · Director
Everyday’s the Seventies
2018 · Director
Eleven Men
2016 · Director
Letters from Panduranga
2016 · Director, Writer
Vietnam the Movie
2014 · Director
Landscape Series #1
2013 · Director
I Died for Beauty
2012 · Director
Song to the Front
2011 · Director
Hiếu's Story
2011 · Editor
Chronicle of a Tape Recorded Over
2010 · Director
Love Man Love Woman
2007 · Director