2019 HAMMER GRANT FINALIST
Natalie Tsui, image by Lia Clay for the 2018 Queer|Art Community Portrait Project
About Natatlie Tsui, Finalist
Natalie Tsui is a Brooklyn-based queer artist and filmmaker whose work investigates the links and ruptures between mass culture, collective memory, and personal narrative through visual storytelling. Utilizing autoethnography, performance, found footage appropriation, and narrative film production, Tsui works to redress the problematic legacy of cinema as a medium that erases, distorts, and totalizes the experience of the “other”.
Tsui holds a B.A. in Film Studies and English from UC Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Their work has screened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Frameline, Museu de Arts Moderna of Rio de Janiero, Shapeshifters Cinema, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. They were a Flaherty Seminar Fellow, NYFF Artist Academy Fellow, Queer Art Mentorship Fellow, and a Princess Grace Film Awardee.