This film carries an uneasy aura, trading stock between raw natural landscapes and development projects being put in place on the Tibetan plateau. On the one hand, Western Tibet's Mount Kailash region, the source of Tibet's Four Rivers, evokes a sense of sacredness. On the other hand, controversial development projects suggest a difference between the approach of the old and new. Intertwining these tensions together, Chu-bZhi presents series of site-specific vignettes that subtly weave the relations between sacred sites, geomancy, colonization, development, history, nature, and politics.

Chu-bZhi (Four Rivers) is comprised of different narrative layers - some of which occur onscreen - and others, most notably, off-screen. First, the off-screen narrative makes visible the usually "excluded outsider," upon the borderlands of China's highly restricted Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Second, the off-screen narrative portrays filming during the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Tenzin Phuntsog received a Bachelor's degree in Design & Media Arts from UCLA, and also received a Master of Fine Art's degree in Visual Arts from Columbia University in the City of New York in 2006.