Daphne Xu (Canada/China) is an artist and filmmaker who explores the politics and poetics of place. Her works unfurl from cities in flux; they are concerned with the interior lives of women and diasporic subjects caught in moments of rapid development. Xu’s films suspend normative narrativity to reflect the unknowability of the now, seeking associative meaning over anthropological explanation. They have premiered at festivals and institutions including Toronto International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Visions du Réel, and Cinéma du Réel. She began making films in 2018 as a Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard University, where she is an affiliate of the Sensory Ethnography Lab.
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Sponge Gourd Collective CV (active 2016-2020)