Amanda Tjhin is a filmmaker, photographer, and artistic researcher whose work spans experimental narrative and documentary filmmaking. Rooted in movement, identity, and space, her practice explores the fluid nature of belonging and the intersections of queerness, memory, and personal history. Through layered imagery and the interplay of fiction and reality, she creates poetic reflections on how people are shaped by their environments.

As she is deeply inspired by the Indonesian phrase bertukar pikiran (“exchange of minds”), Amanda approaches conversation, collaboration, and shared experience as central to her creative process. As a queer POC artist who has lived across Indonesia, the United States, and the Netherlands, she brings a transnational perspective to her work.

Her films and visual work have been showcased at Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea (PT)—supported by the República Portuguesa & Cultura/DG ARtes—Minikino Film Week (IDN), and the Austin Arthouse Film Festival (USA), and she has worked with filmmaker Janice Tanaka.

She is pursuing her Research Master’s in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam, after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Media (with a focus in filmmaking) from CalArts in 2022.

She is currently working on a short film, A Far Distant Earth, with Iulia Rusu and an audiovisual performance piece, Sexual Nature, with Haider Timur.