The Land Where Ghosts Could Speak
Waves
East
The Trace of Hometown
A Prayer in Spring
- about
Tianhui’s moving image works examine the body as politics: how the body is shaped and disciplined by the power structures of Chinese societies, and how these societies reward or punish the body under conditions of rapid economic growth in East Asia. By blending her personal transnational cultural experiences and incorporating personal memory under collective trauma, she engages with historical and contemporary perspectives on East and Southeast Asian identity, the politics of memory, and resistance.
Her moving image works have shown at international film festivals and exhibitions, including DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (Korea), Glasgow Short Film Festival (Scotland), Lago Film Fest (Italy), National Galleries Scotland (Scotland), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), Nottingham Contemporary, Three Shadow Photography Art Centre (China).
She was awarded the 2025 Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize at Glasgow Short (UK), the 2025 PRINCÌPÎ Award at Lago Film Fest (Italy), and the 4th 1839 Photography Award in China. She was nominated for the Next Thing Moving Image Award at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre.