Maya Han integrates the documentary form with techniques in experimental film, video art and installation. Through these hybrid strategies, she strives to expand the language and form of time-based work to give visibility to marginalized experiences. For the past twenty years, Maya has been committed to art as a form of activism, critically engaging with issues of race, gender, class, labor, and diasporic identities. Working under various noms de plume, and often in the style of cinécriture, her work has been presented at more than sixty screenings and exhibitions internationally including the Harlem Film Festival, New York NY; The Film Gallery, Paris France; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; LAXART Los Angeles CA; and the Busan International Film Festival, Busan South Korea. Her education includes a Diplôme in Lettres et Langues from the Université de Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine where her mentor and thesis advisor was Yvonne Rainer. She is also the founder and editor of several sites and journals including camerafemina.net. She can usually be found in Paris and Brooklyn, where she is cultivating her garden and cultivating ongoing strategies of resistance via the herbological, mycological, and philological.