Born in Singapore in 1976, Tzu Nyen is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist who works with paintings, drawings, photography, installations, and multimedia. He is widely regarded as one of Singapore's most important contemporary visual artists of his generation. He crosses different disciplinary fields with great success, as shown by the international acclaim he received for his theatre projects, and the selection of his first feature film for the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival. His latest film is the medium-length EARTH (2009), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will be included in Unsound 2010 with live music by Black to Comm.

"We see the site of an unknown disaster, the debris of history that
constitutes the story of Earth. Upon the site, lay fifty 50 humans
oscillating between consciousness and unconsciousness, life and death. Sometimes, one of them emerges into the foreground – clutching a fist, batting an eyelid, or weeping for his neighbor.  At other times, these figures recede from the light, losing their individual shapes to form a gigantic organism, breathing in unison, pulsating like a jellyfish, though their journey across Earth..."