Xinyue is reading for a DPhil in fine art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. She is a practice-led Clarendon scholar aiming to posit the ‘Cinema of Ecological Grief’ as a distinct visual genre using film, text, and installation. In understanding the genre as a filmic endeavour that carries ecological grief through the work of mourning, her art spans the disciplines of visual anthropology, contemporary film and visual art studies, and ethics.