Shi Bio

Phone: (919) 962-4955

office: 111 Bingham Hall
Wenhua@email.unc.edu

Wenhua Shi, originally trained as a doctor in China, departed from the medical field and began working in radio and TV in his hometown of Wuhan. In 2000, he came to the US and began studying with with the experimental film giants Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. There he began making and exploring film as and earned his BA & BFA.

In 2006 he began studying for his MFA in Art Practice at the University of California, at Berkeley. Since then his new works integrate new media, sounds, installation, and sculpture. His films have been screened at Pacific Film Archive, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television (UK) , Denver Contemporary Museum of Art, Beijing Film Academy, The Jack Kerouac School of Naropa University, and dozens of international film festivals, including Rotterdam, Hamburg, Bradford, and Mexico City, where his works have been recognized with top honors. He works on the poetic approach to filmmaking and crossing the boundary of narrative and experimental style while engaging with new media and gaming.