Vu T. Thu Ha
Vu T. Thu Ha is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in film, photography and conceptual art.[1]
Vu is an artist with a diverse background, having studied film, photography, and sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute, wood technology and fine furniture building at Laney College in Oakland, and music and studio art at the University of North Carolina.
Vu's 2006 feature film Kieu, running time 74 minutes, in English, with Vietnamese dialogue,[2] was inspired by Vietnamese epic poem Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu), by Nguyen Du.[3] Kieu premiered in March 2006 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.[3]
Vu is also the director of 16mm films Each Night (2001) and Shut Up White Boy (2002).[1] Shut Up White Boy, a comedic film that screened nationally and internationally, is about a young white man with an Asian fetish who "gets his cumuppence when the diner's staff of asian dykes decide on taking creative revenge."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "ViFF Participating Filmmakers". Viet Film Fest. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ Harve y, Dennis. "Review: Kieu". Variety. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ a b "Vu T. Thu Ha and Locus Arts". creativeworkfund.org. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Shut Up White Boy (2002)". IMDB. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
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