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A Woman Who Paints Thangkas

Rebgong (Qinghai province, China) is well-known for its Tibetan Buddhist thangka art for centuries. However, Tibetan women were not allowed to learn or to paint thangkas, until recent years. Lutso is one of the few Tibetan female thangka painters in Rebgong. She is also a mother, a wife, and the oldest daughter in the family. The film captures Lutso’s unique life as a thangka painter, who has a career to develop and a family to support..

Ming Xue

Ming Xue received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA in 2014. Her research focuses on topics of art commerce, social change, and modernization in rural Tibet. She has been doing the ethnographic research about Tibetan thangka painters in Rebgong since 2009. Recently, she integrates the visual approach, i.e. documentary filmmaking, into her research. Her documentary film, Nagarjuna Art School (2016), was an official selection of the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York.

Writer: Omar L. de Barros Filho

Producer: Ming Xue

Key Cast: Lutso

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