» Lananh Chu’s residency at Gasworks

Nguyen Art Foundation proudly co-sponsors the participation of Lananh Chu’s residency at Gasworks from 7 April – 23 June 2025. 

From Gasworks:

Lananh Chu is a filmmaker and writer interested in the entanglements between humans, nonhumans, plants, animals, stones, soil, air and other media. Their experimental nonfiction filmmaking practice attends to the materialities and infrastructure of media in relation to border regimes, surveillance, discrimination, and bureaucracy. Their recent work, The Melting, filmed with cinematic and thermal cameras, contemplates the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a refrigerator truck in Essex in 2019 and grapples with the connections between migration, questions of exposure, and thermal violence. 

During their residency at Gasworks, Lananh will develop a site-specific experimental short that is a follow-up to The Melting. They plan to film in Essex, study surveillance technologies deployed by the UK Border Force, and learn from working class Vietnamese communities in the UK. 

Lananh Chu’s residency is supported by The Institutum and Nguyen Art Foundation. For more information on Gasworks and its residency programmes, please visit here.  

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Lananh Chu’s recent film screenings include Image Festival, Toronto, Canada; Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China; Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, USA; Cosmic Rays Film Fest, North Carolina, USA and Sight/Geist screening series, The 8th Floor, NYC, USA. Their writings can be found in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Diode, PR&TA journal, AJAR Press, Literature Across Frontiers, and Asian American Writer Workshop, among others. They have been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship (2021-2023) and the Deanna Kamiel Fellowship (2023-2024). In 2024 they graduated with an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York.