Film – Cindy A. Nguyen

Animated Shorts

Lost & Found (2018) 7 minute Animated Short

one small step (2019) 7 minute animated short

The Present (2016) 4 minute animated short

Filmmaking Notes to Self

Build connection and investment to character early on. Cultivate compassion, curiosity, tenderness.
Element of surprise – suddenness, turn of events, ‘things are not as they seem’
Moral and concrete takeaway point

Historian-Artist

Cindy Nguyen is a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the departments of History and Literature at University of California, San Diego. She previously worked at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in History at University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the history of Vietnam, Southeast Asia print culture, and digital humanities. Her book manuscript, "Bibliotactics: Social Life of Libraries and Colonial Control in Vietnam, 1865-1958" examines the cultural and political history of libraries and a state sponsored public in colonial to postcolonial Vietnam.

I am a
historian
digital humanist
artist
poet
technologist
filmmaker
publisher
feminist
refugee