Vi Tuong Bui (she/her) is a queer photographer and film maker of the Vietnamese diaspora based in Lenapehoking. Her work is in 16mm and she’s interested in exploring non-linear modes of time, memory, and Vietnamese queer decolonial futures ꩜꩜꩜

She was a 2022-2023 Production Workshop Fellow at Third World Newsreel. During the summer of 2023 Vi was an artist in residence at Casa Do Xisto (Barcelos, Portugal). Vi teaches 16mm color film making at Mono No Aware.

She supports the movement for a liberated Palestine.

Upcoming Screenings:

Thời Thơ Ấu (Childhood)
Currently streaming on POV Shorts (PBS)

Hoa Tay (Flower Hands) exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, March 15 — September 15, 2025

Vi’s Garden
*8 BALL TV, every Saturday and Sunday at 7pm ET

Past Screenings

Thời Thơ Ấu (Childhood)
City College of New York - New York, NY, February 5, 2025
Sight/Geist at the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation - New York, NY, October 24 2024
Vietnamese International Film Fesival - Santa Ana, California, October 12, 2024
Don't/Đừng Film & Art Event - Brooklyn, New York, June 20 2024
   Plex Arts Festival - Burlington, VT, May 25, 2024
   Moviate Underground Film Festival - Harrisburg, PA, May 19, 2024
   CAAMFest - San Francisco, CA, May 18 2024
      Third Horizon Film Festival - Miami, FL, May 10 2024
   VC Film Fest (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival) - LA, CA, May 10 2024
       Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Milwaukee, WI, April 26 2024
       Film Diary NYC - Brooklyn, NY, January 2024
     Beijing International Short Film Festival - Beijing, China, December 2023
New Orleans Film Festival, November 2023

Vi’s Garden
The Museum of Modern Art - New York, NY, June 2023

Press:
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/film/A-Days-Dispatch-from-Third-Horizon-Film-Festival-2024

https://festival.vcmedia.org/2024/2024/05/16/40th-vc-film-fest-announces-award-winners/

https://www.amdoc.org/pressroom/pov-shorts-season-seven/#pov_shorts_season_7_slate

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/a-swim-lesson-pov-shorts-season-7-lineup-1236167286/