TIANHUI  WU

The  Land  Where  Ghosts  Could  Speak
Waves
East
Before The Train Comes
The  Trace  of  Hometown
A  Prayer  in  Spring


  • About
Born on Hainan Island, China, Tianhui Wu is an artist-filmmaker currently based in Scotland.

Her practice spans moving image, video installation and cinema, examining language and identity erasure, body politic and dreams. She engages with these themes through embodied filmmaking, working with unofficial archives, personal or found footage, and dialects. Questioning what was remembered, recorded or disappeared, yet remains haunting.

In her intuitive, embodied practice, she traces the imagined and sensorial encounters of the body, moving through the entanglements of nightmares, myths, possession, and ancestral memories. Dreams become a psychological medium for exploring erased identities and the collective past. Her film forms an ongoing dialogue among personal lived experience, power relations and collective shadows, exploring historical and contemporary perspectives on ethnic minorities' identity, memory, and resistance.

Her works have been shown internationally at film festivals and exhibitions, including Image Festival (Canada), DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (Korea), Glasgow Short  Film Festival,  Lago  Film  Fest (Italy), National Galleries Scotland (Scotland),  New Art Exchange (Nottingham), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) and Three Shadow Photography Art Centre (China).

She was awarded the 2026 Student Award at Image Festival (Canada), the 2025 Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize at Glasgow Short Film Festival (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.

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