
Person
Nguyễn Trinh Thi
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Biography
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.
Known for

How to Improve the World
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Fifth Cinema
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Song to the Front
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Eleven Men
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I Died for Beauty
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Landscape Series #1
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Letters from Panduranga
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Vietnam the Movie
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I died for beauty
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Hiếu's Story
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Filmography
- 2021How to Improve the WorldDirector
- 2018Fifth CinemaDirector
- 2018Everyday’s the SeventiesDirector
- 2016Eleven MenDirector
- 2016Letters from PandurangaDirector
- 2014Vietnam the MovieDirector
- 2013Landscape Series #1Director
- 2012I died for beautyDirector
- 2012I Died for BeautyDirector
- 2011Song to the FrontDirector
- 2011Hiếu's StoryEditor
- 2010Chronicle of a Tape Recorded OverDirector
- 2007Love Man Love WomanDirector
- —47 Days, Sound-lessDirector
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