Xiao Zhang is an artist-filmmaker from China and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her practice centers on personal poetics which derives from cross-generation memory and diaristic approaches. It continues by employing methods drawn from handcrafted celluloid film and expanded cinema. Her work often offers a complex fluctuation between material reality and subjective experience. She received her BFA at Beijing Film Academy in 2020 and currently holds an MFA in Program in Film/Video at CalArts.