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Xiaolu Wang (she/they) is an emerging documentary filmmaker and a translator from the Hui Muslim Autonomous Region of China, whose practice is based in the mapping of interiority, with the use of video, poetry, memory, translations, and a decolonial lens. Their work have been screened at local venues and international film festivals in countries like Lebanon, Mexico, China, and Argentina. They contributed translations to journals including 单读, onlimbo, and Cinephila. 

When they are not studying films, Xiaolu helps out at a friend's donation-based food pop-up, "The Shui Project", or reads the Tao Te Ching. They are a recipient of the 2019 Jerome Film and Media Grant, a fellow of DocX Archive Lab 2021 organized by Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, and their work has been generously supported by Metropolitan Regional Arts Council of Minnesota, Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, Jerome Foundation, Women Make Movies, and UnionDocs. They live in Minneapolis with two cats, Marvin and Moto, who sleep on separate couches.

祝你中秋快乐 - I Wish You Happy Moon Festival from APIA MN Film Collective on Vimeo.

Clip from I Wish You Happy Moon Festival  (2021)
I Wish You Happy Moon Festival, 2021, 02:52
One overseas phone call, but one phrase was lost to the receiver of the call.

Artist Statement:

Between unsatisfying phone calls, between every Chinese holidays I grew up with but no longer remember to celebrate, between the haunting hours of COVID solitude, between the repetitive motions of life, between new moons and full moons, between catching up on World Cinema, between autobiographies and suicidal authors, between Bryant Ave and 33rd, between cat naps, between uprisings and trials, between the smell of incenses, you might find the grief in my lungs, breathing in and breathing out. This is a film in honor of my grandmother, who is breathing with me in the spirit world and patiently waiting for me to return.
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Still from I Wish You Happy Moon Festival
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