Spring Comes Winter After, 2009
Nguyen Trinh Thi is inspired by her heritage, her pieces are powerful and haunting, and focus on social and cultural issues in Vietnam.
Nguyen Trinh Thi is an independent filmmaker and documentarian based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her diverse practice has consistently investigated the role of memory in the necessary unveiling of hidden, displaced or misinterpreted histories, often making use of original documentary footage or undertaking extensive investigative field work.
Inspired by her heritage, her pieces are powerful and haunting, and focus on social and cultural issues in Vietnam. She founded the Hanoi Doclab, a center for documentary filmmaking and video art in Hanoi.
Nguyen Trinh Thi possesses a Bachelor of Arts in Russian and English, Hanoi Foreign Studies College, Hanoi; Masters, Professional Journalism, University of Iowa; and a Masters, Pacific International Affairs. She has produced 5 short films that have been screened in China, Italy, France; Cambodia, Vietnam, Poland, Brazil and the US. Recent art exhibitions of her work include ‘10+’, Nha San Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2008; ‘Strategies from Within: An Exhibition of Vietnamese and Cambodian Contemporary Art Practices’, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China, 2008 and ‘In the course of our exchange’, Yunart Contemporary Art Gallery, Kunming, China, 2008. In 2007, Nguyen founded ‘Hi-DEFF’, to encourage independent filmmaking in Vietnam and collaborations among artists, filmmakers and others that holds biweekly documentary and experimental film screenings in Hanoi.