Niu Han
牛涵
Filmmaker · Writer · Artist
Personal website & full biographyniuhan.net ↗Niu Han is a filmmaker, writer and artist whose practice has developed across Aotearoa New Zealand, Beijing and North America. He studied at the University of Auckland and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Xu Bing.
His films and projects include Warm Smell of Coriander, A Sweet Life, Chinese Whispers, Word and Commandment. Alongside filmmaking, he works in writing, translation and the development of creative tools.
He has participated in Berlinale Talents, the Golden Horse Film Academy and Abbas Kiarostami’s filmmaking workshop in Cuba, and received a NIPKOW fellowship in Berlin.
With Qing Ting Zhi Yan
Qing Ting Zhi Yan continues his work between cinema and contemporary art. Through an imagined archive of historical surveillance images, the project revisits the rise and fall of the Qing and asks how images acquire credibility, and how a position of looking shapes our understanding of the past. It is developing from a 2D trailer towards spatial cinema and an immersive feature.
Read the methodology ↗Selected films & projects
- Warm Smell of Coriander空中弥漫温热的香菜气息Writer / Director
- A Sweet Life甜美生活Writer / Director
- Chinese Whispers呢喃Writer / Director
- Word话语Writer / Director / Producer
- Commandment诫命Writer / Director