Loo Hui Phang | |
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Born | Laos | 12 November 1974
Nationality | French |
Known for | Comic book artist |
Loo Hui Phang (born 12 November 1974) is a French writer and film director. [1]
The daughter of a Chinese father and Vietnamese mother, Hui Phang was born in Laos and grew up in Normandy. She studied modern literature and cinema. In 1997, she moved to Paris, where she became involved in independent cinema and graphic novels. Hui Phang has also written plays for children. [2] [3]
In 2014, she prepared an immersive installation based on George Orwell's Animal Farm for the Pulp Festival at the La Ferme du Buisson . The following year, at the same festival, she created an installation based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher . [4]
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