Jenn Tran

b. 1999

Jenn Tran is a Vietnamese, Australian-born experimental animator, curator and arts educator based in Melbourne, Wurundjeri country. She explores the relationship between form and frame, foregrounding experimental animation in tactile layerings of stop motion through 16mm, pencil to paper, clay and textile. Her work has been presented at the Sydney Film Festival, SEVENTH Gallery and Pari Ari.


How to Build a Forest
The Formation of a Cloud
Pooch Mountain
Small Frame
How to Make a Whistle Kite
Kite Poem
Solar Loops
Do Animals Believe in Faith?
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Education
2018-2020: University of Melbourne - Bachelor of Fine Art, Animation

Filmography
2025: Pooch Mountain, dir. Jenn Tran
2024: A Kite Poem, dir. Jenn Tran
2023: ‘Steve’. dir. Richard Lewer
2022: How To Build A Forest, dir. Jenn Tran
2022: Smoke Taint, Heir Traffic, Marthouse Records
2021: GOD IS IN THE MOUNTAINS, dir. Jenn Tran
2021: The Formation of a Cloud, dir. Jenn Tran
2021: Do Animals Know Faith?, dir. Jenn Tran
2021: Solar Loops, dir. Jenn Tran
2021: 1119 SUNSPOT DRAWINGS & 14 CARTOONS OF THE SUN, dir. Jenn Tran

Group Shows & Solo
April 2026: Small Frame, FirstDraft, [curator], NSW
January 2026: ‘Grained’, Blakdot Gallery, VIC
October 2025: ‘Gestures of Hospitality’, Blindside Gallery, VIC
April 2025: ‘Shapeshifting’, Pari Ari, SYD
October 2024: Blindside Gallery - 20 Years Fundraiser, VIC
November 2023: SOLIDARITY FUNDRAISER For Palestine: TCB Gallery, VIC
August 2023: MILK Gallery Final Group Show, VIC
August 2023: Composite Moving Image, VIC
July 2023: Footscray Art Prize 2023, Footscray Community Arts, VIC
April 2022: SEVENTH Gallery, [solo], VIC

Screenings
July 2025: Current Gallery, Freemantle, PRT
July 2025: Dogmilk x Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, VIC
June 2025: Zero Pixel, Artist Film Workshop, TAS
April 2025: Tyler & Friends @Seventh Gallery, VIC
October 2024: Centre For Projection Art, Collingwood Yards, Fringe Festival, VIC
August 2024: Centre For Projection Art, Federation Square, VIC
August 2024: Now or Never, Refracting Relations: SIGNAL Arts, VIC
April 2024: moviejuice, SA
Feburary 2024: Artist Film Workshop: ART+ FILM, VIC
October 2023: Robin Boyd Foundation: DaDo Film Society, VIC
May 2023: Powerhouse x Temporary Position, SYD
December 2022:Churchill Public Art, Tellos, VIC
July 2022:(Dis)topia Australis, (Dis)solution Magazine, VIC
June 2022:Same River Twice, Emerging Writer’s Festival, VIC
April 2022: Outdoor Screening Programme, Bunjil Place, VIC
March 2022: MILK Cinema, Milk Gallery, VIC
August 2021: 21 Frames Per Second, 24memespersecond, USA [online]
July 2021: FAITH 09, Caliper Journal, VIC
June 2021: “The Sun”, Light from Space, USA [online]
November 2020: Graduate Exhibition, MIFF Play [online], VIC

Residencies / Workshops
2026: PHIVE, Paramatta Library - Kite Making Workshop, SYD
2025: Air Huế, Artist in Residence, Huế, VN
2024: Centre For Projection Art, Winter Residency, VIC

Film Festivals
October 2023: Australian Shorts, Adelaide Film Festival, SA
June 2023: FLUX: ART+FILM, Sydney Film Festival, SYD
May 2022: Homegrown Shorts, Human Rights & Arts Film Festival, VIC
October 2021: Canberra Short Film Festival, CBR

Relevant Work
2024 - present: Triple R Radio Presenter
2023 – present: Artist Film Workshop, VIC
2022 – present: Art Technician, VIC

Awards and Grants:
Footscray Art Prize (shortlist)
Human Rights & Arts Film Festival – Emerging Filmmakers Fund
Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship (Screenwriting)
Harry Hains Memorial Trust

Panel Discussions:
Human Rights & Arts Film Festival
DaDo Film Society (Robin Boyd Foundation)