About
I am a documentary maker, artist and writer with a background in creating intimate dialogues and storytelling across sound, film and texts. My work explores the interplay between personal and collective narratives and the responsibility of listening. I am interested in language making and its relationship with the body and lineages. I am based in Melbourne on unceded Wurundjeri Country.
I have worked as a freelancer in editorial and producer for podcasts, films, arts and community projects such as the ArtsGen, 3CR Community Radio, Emerging Writers Festival, The Moth Live (NYC), Dramageddon x Melbourne Writers Festival,Empathy Museum x Arts Centre Melbourne, Writers Victoria, SIGNAL and the Women’s Center for Creative Work (LA).
In 2019-2020 I was a Collaborative Studio Fellow at UnionDocs (NYC). In 2021, I was the Editor for disorganising, a project between Bus Projects, West Space and Liquid Architecture, where I edited the award-winning disorganising Workbook.
Currently I am working as a Producer for Fly in Power – a film documentary following the Asian immigrant massage parlour worker community who are criminalized in NYC.
︎ xennhai [at] gmail [dot] com
I have worked as a freelancer in editorial and producer for podcasts, films, arts and community projects such as the ArtsGen, 3CR Community Radio, Emerging Writers Festival, The Moth Live (NYC), Dramageddon x Melbourne Writers Festival,Empathy Museum x Arts Centre Melbourne, Writers Victoria, SIGNAL and the Women’s Center for Creative Work (LA).
In 2019-2020 I was a Collaborative Studio Fellow at UnionDocs (NYC). In 2021, I was the Editor for disorganising, a project between Bus Projects, West Space and Liquid Architecture, where I edited the award-winning disorganising Workbook.
Currently I am working as a Producer for Fly in Power – a film documentary following the Asian immigrant massage parlour worker community who are criminalized in NYC.
︎ xennhai [at] gmail [dot] com
Sound
- composition of soil – a meditation – K(NOT) – Arts Gen – 2022
- visiting rites, I take off my shoes before I enter – Mclelland Gallery x Liquid Architecture sound commission – 2021
- Dramageddon x Melbourne Writers Festival Special – Podcast Producer – 2020
- Thalweg – Sound Designer – Trail of Lights Festival – 2019
- When Love Wins podcast – Podcast Producer – Switchboard – 2019
- 2222 – Audio Producer – Emerging Writers Festival x State Library Victoria – 2019
- A Mile in My Shoes – Amy’s Story – Empathy Museum x Arts Centre Melbourne pop-up installation – 2019
- Border Stories – Podcast Producer – Writers Victoria and VALiD –2018
- The Digital Writers Festival Podcast – 2017
- 27 – KCRW's Radio Race – Producer – 2018
- Remotely Intimate – CBAA Documentary Series – 2016
- ReachOut Australia's Real Stories: Abusive Relationships – Script Writer and Researcher – 2015
- We Weren't Born Yesterday – Producer + Project Coordinator – 2015
- Women on the Line – Producer + Host – 3CR Community Radio – 2018-2019
- Queering the Air – Producer + Host – 3CR Community Radio – 2013-2018
Films
- Fly in Power – Producer – Dir. Yin Q and Yoon Grace Ra – in production
- The Unshakeable Destiny 2.0 – Production Assistant – Dir. Nikki Lam – in production
- Malamadre – Sound Recordist – Dir. Liang Luscombe – 2022
- In Living Memory – Supervising Sound Editor – Dir. Quyên Nguyen-Le – 2022
- flutters through skin – Editor + Sound Designer – Dir. Nundrisha Wahkloo – 2020
Writing
- thương – Sanctuary – Liminal Magazine – 2022
- A Dedication to Lisa Bellear – Part Two – Liminal Magazine – 2020
- How does a journey start? – collaborative text with H.Mur – FCAC Writes – 2020
- Correspondence: Thanh Hằng Phạm + Jeannine Ventura – New Life Quarterly, Issue 4 – 2018
- Holding the Lens onto Myself – Peril Magazine – 2016
Zines
- mình vol.i (2014) + vol.ii (2016)
- speaking bitterness – self published – 2017
- chị và em – self published - 2014
- Spectra – 2015
- Queer Lunar New Year Zines – Editor – Red Pocket Press – 2019 - present
Editorial
- disorganising Workbook and website – Editor – Liquid Architecture, Bus Projects and West Space – 2020
- Red Pocket Press – Editor and Founder – 2018 - present
Workshops
- Sound Storytelling workshop for Resonant Voices Lab – Victoria University – 2022
- Signal Summer presents Sound + Spoken Word workshop with Xen Nhà and Thabani Tshuma – 2022
- Regenerate: Paper collaging + Gratitude Altar for Year of the Ox – Red Pocket Press x AAA – Makers Window – 2021
- Art Agititators Podcast Workshop – Bunjil Place – 2019
- The Things We Did Next Podcast Creative Development Workshop – Audiocraft – 2019
- Yummy ngon quá 好吃 – a Red Pocket Press zine workshop – RMIT Pride Week – 2019
- 'Shh, we're podcasting' – SIGNAL Arts –2018
- Sound Bodies: A workshop on the power and practice of radio – Women's Center for Creative Work – 2018
- Writing and Creating Sound Collages – Women's Center for Creative Work – 2017
Appearances
- Independent Publisher Panel with Beatrix Pang + Xen Nhà – Asia Art Archive – 2020
- Liminal Magazine – 2016
Study
- Film Futura Student – No Evil Eye Cinema – 2021
- Collaborative Studio Fellow – UnionDocs – 2019/2020
- Air Media Full Spectrum Fellow – 2018