FILMMAKER & WRITER
FILMOGRAPHY
Working across film, photography, writing, and sound, Yawen Tan traces the female body as a site of psychic rupture. She explores women’s madness, desire, death, and play, experimenting in the liminal space between fiction and documentary, the visible and the invisible, finitude and infinitude.
DIRECTOR & WRITER
Neither Peace Nor Rhapsody, 2025
FILM MENTOR
I Write You Love, War Writes Goodbye, 2025
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Showreel, 2022-2026
Writing
FEATURE FILM
La Méduse Géniale - late development
Between Peaks, 2025
SHORT FILM
Yuan, 2026
A Tale for A Tail, 2026
I Write You Love, War Writes Goodbye, 2025
LITERARY WORK
Once, briefly - literary memoir, 2026
I shall be with you on your wedding night, 2022
bio
Yawen Tan is a Chinese filmmaker, writer, and artist based in Paris.
A 2020 Stanford graduate, her work traces the female body as a site of psychic rupture, experimenting with madness, desire, death, and play. She is currently writing her debut feature film and a literary memoir.
Her films have received awards and nominations from the New York International Film Awards and Los Angeles Film Awards, and have been presented at the Marché du Film at the Festival de Cannes.
In 2020, Yawen was featured in Stanford News as one of nine outstanding graduates. In 2023, she received the Asia-Pacific Leaders Initiative Outstanding Delegate Award for her contributions to the arts and humanities.
