Cui, Yi is a Chinese media artist. Her practice is rooted in process and collaboration, engaging time-based forms—including moving image, performance, and participatory media—as modes of inquiry and relation. Through the evolving framework of “Migrating Cinema”, she explores the intersections of Indigenous and grassroots filmmaking, expanded cinema, traveling projection, and ancient screen arts such as shadow theatre.

Since 2013, Yi has collaborated with communities in Eastern Tibet, supporting local audiovisual creation by herding families, monastic filmmakers, and students. These sustained collaborations have shaped her practice, foregrounding situated knowledge, mutual learning, and media as a relational and generative process. Her recent work To Alexandra emerges from this ongoing dialogue, reflecting a collaborative effort with members of the Tibetan community.

Her works have received recognition including the Grand Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and the Libraries’ Award at Cinéma du Réel, and have been presented at exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Images Festival, Viennale, Short Film Week Regensburg, Message to Man, and Cinéma Vérité in Iran. Yi was a 2024 Flaherty Seminar Fellow and currently teaches at Colgate University in New York state, USA.

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