About — Channing Qian Mu

Biography

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Qian Mu is a New York–based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across film, installation, and immersive media. Her practice moves fluidly between physical space and synthetic environments, bringing together directing, concept design, digital art, and real-time processes to construct hybrid situations where cultural memory, embodied experience, and technological mediation intersect. She is currently pursuing her MPS at NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she develops immersive systems that extend cinematic language into spatial and interactive forms.

Drawing on a background in film, rhetorical studies, and philosophy from Syracuse University, Qian approaches image-making as both a cultural and structural process. Her projects move between narrative and non-narrative forms, integrating moving image, spatial composition, and performative elements into environments that evolve over time. Her work unfolds as shifting conditions where images, bodies, and environments remain in flux, continuously reshaped through perception.

Qian’s work in creative direction and brand identity includes producing interview series with figures such as Grammy-winning poet J. Ivy and spiritual leader Daaji. Her experimental films, AQUAFLATTER and IN ABSENCE OF THE DIVINE, have received recognition from international festivals including LAFA, Festigious, Salt City Film Festival, NYIFA, AIMAFF, and the China Zhejiang University Film Festival. Her experience at Publicis Groupe and Sohu further informs her sensitivity to audience perception and communication structures.