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hey! my name is tien nguyen. i am a first ac/colorist/g&e based primarily in new york city. i make short experimental films and i am also the nyc post chief of tangent zine and a film student at NYU’s tisch school of the arts.

contact me for work!!
instagram: @tienwin.avi
email: 13tienguyen@gmail.com

my freelance rates! all super negotiable <3

day rate:
first ac (550/12 full rate)
coloring (200/12 full rate)
g&e (350/12 full rate)

kit fees:
tiltamax nucleus m (150 per day, capped at 275 for weekend price)

featured pieces (more on journalism work page!)

railroads, isolation, love and pop
by tien nguyen for tangent zine

viet and nam: a search in the scorched earth
by tien nguyen for girlwithamoviecamerablog

tribeca film festival ’25: honeyjoon, drowning with your mother
by tien nguyen for tangent zine

a poem about children

2025-12-25

there is a lemon tree in my parents’ backyardwhich i planted when i was 12.i have never seen the products of its labor,i have never known the soil that gives it life.i have a…
sleep paralysis

2025-11-22

last night you told me you took a pill to help you fall asleep and i remembered being afraid of our bodies in the grasshow the cattle stepped right next to my head and…
exit wounds

2025-10-20

(written for the lunch in hell magazine) the ship that saved you has been next to your son since 1944. i want to tell youi stand in one of the only places that he…
a poem i’ve wanted to write

2025-07-06

i only notice that my fingers are yellow and your body is blackenedwhen you bring your lighter to my mouth.and i want to describe itbefore your body is no longer warm, but i don’t…
dream on, baby. all our roads lead to rome

2025-05-15

(view on computer for intended formatting) on the 580 there is a boysitting next to you, whose silence makes you startto feel like everything could be okayand you sit with him for over an…
a foreword for the metal fetishists

2025-05-12

there’s a boy, a girl, a boy, a boy the weight of all your lovers’ skinpushing your body into the bed,in your memorythey are indistinguishable from each other.your eyes never lingered long onthe changing…
reasons i’ll never eat at denny’s again

2025-05-11

for my storytelling strategies class at nyu tisch’s film and tv program We’re in a Denny’s with the entire cast of the very last play I will ever do. There’s a finality in the…
thoughts about homelands and burials

2025-05-11

thỉnh thoảng,i think my bones are made of dirt.my fingers bend wildly and crumbleuntil they feel the resistance of fleshcold to the touchpiercing they lie in wait until they get to dig into the flesh…
a poem about may and jazz

2025-05-11

i’m thinking of an incision in my stomach and being the last one left in our little world as everyone moves on to the next four months will i still be here, listening to…

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