Movies: Tenzin Phuntsog

A Tibetan-American filmmaker explores modes of resistance to Chinese occupation by speaking with activists across generations. A former Tibetan monk broke his vows and became a guerilla leader. The filmmaker's own mother followed the Dalai Lama's Mid...

It showcases a joyful moment of a child dancing to a contemporary Tibetan song in a Tibetan home. The boy looks straight at the camera humorously and charmingly....

It showcases a personal message between the artist's mother and her sister. They discuss keeping in touch through pictures, which represents a form of exchange for their monitored communications....

On a Typical day on the sunny grasslands of Tibet, offering a rare glimpse of daily life shared between two family members that have been separated for over 40 years....

A 2-channel-video on feelings around familial expressions of care, language, identity, and memories of and longing for a lost homeland, which are expressed unspoken....

Single-channel video in which the artist's parents go to sleep on a single mattress on the floor — akin to the one they used when first arriving in the US — within an empty photo studio. The bed seems to be floating mid-air within an erased environme...

Builds a loose narrative around a long distance conversation between a young Tibetan-American man and his Tibetan-born mother. The character wanders through a natural landscape resembling the exiled homeland of his mother, taking photographs in an at...

A fictional short that takes its inspiration from Black Yamari, a thangka in the Rubin Museum’s collection. Recalling her childhood memories, a young Tibetan woman living in New York, displaced, questions if all is lost. Realizing that beauty is flee...

A cinematic landscape film, based on a pilgrimage guide book on the four river sources that originate near Mount Kailash, in Tibet. The film depicts the beauty and brutality of nature and the rapidly evolving development projects taking place on the ...