Tiffany Jiang is a Chinese-American documentary filmmaker, photographer, and designer who likes to explore grief, trauma, memory, and archives through their personal projects. They currently support creative development at Story Syndicate.
Prior to receiving their MA in Documentary Media Studies from The New School, they designed digital experiences for media companies, like Hulu and Vimeo. Their work has been featured across international festivals, POV, DOC NYC, The International Center of Photography, and Microscope Gallery.
Natural Disasters (2023)
Watch on Vimeo: This found footage film is an exploration into "natural disasters" within the home or family structure. "Natural disasters" as a term is a misnomer since they are technically man-made disasters. The writing combines definitions of natural disasters along with personal recollections of growing up in an unstable home environment.
Festivals: Cactus Club Independent Film Festival, Kabayitos Microcinema, Nuit Blanche Experimental Films, Midwest Poetry Fest, Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Pleasure Dome: Reimagining the Experimental
Showcases: Asian American International Film Festival: (Celluloid Synergy) Experimental Films From 1960s-Now, Microscope Gallery: YES Emerging Artists Series
Engraved (2022)
Watch on Vimeo: Galvanized by devastating events early on in their lives, two New Yorkers find ways to channel their grief into acts of kindness that serve others. The film invites viewers to reflect on what it means to live with and find comfort in grief, in all its different forms.
Official Selection: DOC NYC, Georgetown Film Festival, Flamingo Film Festival, Truth Be Told, Lane Doc Fest, PDX Recovery Festival, Student World Impact FilmFestival, LJMU MA Short Film Festival
Best Documentary Award: Lane Doc Fest, Flamingo Film Festival
Honorable Mention: PDX Recovery Festival, Student World Impact Film Festival
Nominations: Flamingo Film Festival (Best Overall, Best Sound Design), LJMU MA Short Film Festival (Best Documentary), The Gotham x New York Times Op-Docs Showcase, National Board of Review Student Grant, Student World Impact Film Festival (Global Impact Grand Prize, Emerging Film Visionary Award)
Results May Vary (2022)
Watch on Vimeo: A film about memory, family, and archives made in response to a quote by Patricio Guzman.
Featured in “Good Symptom” Anthology — This serial anthology is curated by contemplative filmmaker and autotheorist M Freeman, along with Rana San and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke. Inspired by Roland Barthes’ idea that “The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance” (Camera Lucida, 1980), each monthly release will include one to three short films and an accompanying critical essay that observes, wonders, speculates and imagines the implications of work that defies easy categorization and resists our impulse to name. This project challenges the page as the domain of literary art and showcases films by Black and Indigenous womxn, other womxn of Color and people with disabilities who create as poets, essayists, hybrid writers, filmmakers, media artists, and interdisciplinary artists. Good Symptom invests fully in the conviction that necessary alternatives to received ideas about authorship, publishing and genre arise from artists who live and work outside the stockade of dominant culture.
Exhausted (2021)
Watch on Vimeo: A film made in response to learning about the Atlanta spa shootings while in isolation.
Festivals: Asian American International Film Festival, United We Heal Film Festival, Baby Teeth Film Festival, Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Auntyland Film Festival, Asian American Film Thing, FascinAsian Film Festival, Houston Asian American & Pacific Islander Film Festival, Centrally Isolated Film Festival, Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival Awards
Exhibitions: POV Docs & Asian Mental Health Project Art Show
Awards: The New School’s Fine Cuts Showcase Winner
Honorable Mention: Local Shortiez
Nomination: One Earth Awards (Best Student Film)
Oh Say, Can You See? (2022)
Watch on Vimeo: A film exploring defamiliarization as it relates to place, access, technology, and territories.
Awards: Winnipeg Underground Film Festival XI Jury Prize
“Get U (Off My Mind)” (2022)
Watch on Vimeo: A visual experiment for the track “Get U (Off My Mind)” by Flume.