I was born and raised in Beijing, where my filmmaking began through experimental ethnographic work grounded in observation and immersion. After relocating to the United States, I continued this practice in Milwaukee, where I currently teach at the Peck School of the Arts. Living between cultures has deepened my interest in questions of identity, displacement, and belonging.

My work moves through the in-between, where cultures meet, blur, and resist one another. I turn to humor, rituals, and silences as quiet sites of meaning. Through moving images, I trace how memory, language, and food shape our sense of home, following the shifting contours of cultural identity shaped as much by migration as by longing.