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A film screening and artist talk with Nguyen Trinh Thi
This event is co-hosted by Nguyen Art Foundation and the Art and Media Studies program at Fulbright University Vietnam, involving an in-depth discussion with internationally established artist and filmmaker Nguyen Trinh Thi.
Through a compelling blend of sound, moving images, and installation, the artist unpacked the inextricable relationship between a place and its inhabitants. Subsequently, she and the audience explored how memories and historical traces weave in our daily lives as well as in her art practice.
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Screening program includes:
Everyday’s the Seventies, 2018, three-channel video, sound, 00:15:00
Different versions of the same history – one personal, another depicted by cinema, the third described by the media – are laid on top of each other and collapsed. Mixing footage from 80s and 90s Hong Kong movies, with wire service footage of the Vietnam War and the Vietnamese refugee crisis in Hong Kong from the late 70s until 1997, with an interview with the owner of ‘Paul’s Records’ in Hong Kong, Everyday’s the Seventies continues to explore Trinh Thi’s interests in gaps, holes and disconnections in between personal memories/history and other kinds of collective histories.
47 Days, Sound-less, 2024, single-channel video, color, sound, 00:20:00
47 Days, Sound-less explores the relationships between sound and silence, vision, language, colors and their absence. Trinh Thi identifies “peripheries” – including natural landscapes used as backdrops, uncredited characters and soundtracks from American and Vietnamese movies – that reveal more-than-human perspectives. Offering new ways of looking and listening, 47 Days, Sound-less invites audiences to reflect on the inextricable relationship between a place and its inhabitants.
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This public program corresponds to NAF’s 2024 thematic focus – Innovation & Dedication, celebrating artistic practices that foreground and dissect critical ideas through innovative methods of research and creation.