I was born and raised in Beijing, where my filmmaking began through ethnographic work rooted in observation and immersion. After relocating to the United States, I continued my practice across Milwaukee and Philadelphia—two cities that, in their contrasts and textures, deepened my exploration of identity and displacement.

 

My work navigates the spaces between cultures, offering quiet critiques and intimate reflections on the encounters between the East and the West. I am drawn to the everyday—its humor, its rituals, its silences—and to the ways memory, history, and food shape how we belong or remain apart. Through moving images, I trace the instability and fluidity of cultural identity, shaped as much by migration as by longing. As a transplant, I dwell in the liminal. My films emerge from this in-between space: a negotiation, a translation, a form of remembering.