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Lana Lin

Lana Lin

2019 Advisor

Lana Lin is a filmmaker, artist, and writer based in New York. Her experimental films and multi-disciplinary projects (as Lin + Lam) have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum, Oberhausen Film Festival, Busan Bienniale, and Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival. She has received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation, and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Civitella Ranieri, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Lin teaches in the School of Media Studies at The New School, New York and is the author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer. She has recently completed The Cancer Journals Revisited, a feature length non-fiction film inspired by poet Audre Lorde’s 1980 memoir, and is embarking on a new project supported by The New School’s India China Institute that is sited at the contested border between the two most populous countries in the world.

2019 Advisor Committee Member.