It’s been hard. My mind, heart, and body have been on overdrive. I made the film “NONFUTURE, Meditations on Time” to make sense of it all. If this strikes a chord with you, please share. I hope that this film brings moments of lightness in a very dark and difficult situation inspires creative experimentation to […]
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“The Undeniable Force of Khó Khăn” Film is part of “Mẹ, Translated [Mom, Translated],” a project on intergenerational language and love.
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Film Premiere and Artist Talkback at Viet Film Fest at AMC 30 in Orange, California >
Artist Talk on Translation and Film at Harvard University >
“VELCRO SHOES” meditates on language and loss. >
“VELCRO SHOES” film part of a larger project called Translating Across Time and Space, a poetic documentary film I’m working on funded through the Brown Arts Initiative. In the documentary film I explore – words of the Vietnamese refugee community: ‘home [quê hương],’ ‘border crossing [vượt biên],’ and ‘spirit of gratitude [lòng biết ơn].’
Poetic Stumble
Making Art in the Time of COVID: Why I Made the Film NONFUTURE
Tokyo Glances
Do you still remember how to rustle, shake, and dance to the melody of wind and sky? Or do your concrete mirrors only know how to stand still, bitter, and silent? Can I hold you forever closely in this tender moment? Ah but forgetting you will make finding you oh so much sweeter. A morning […]
Hello, MISSTEP
Currently: I am re-examining my relationship to my body–that forgotten instrument, a vehicle of my consciousness, an extension of self, my best friend and foe.
a two-step misstep to the clackety clacks of computer keys
Command + A step here. Control + Zipper. No, zebra. A zigging and zagging and surrender to the zephyr on my cheek. Option + Alt you. You hilarious tease of forgotten functions. // Mavis Beacon, did you say something? I can’t hear you between the patterned pecks of perfect precision. Move/Be/Do Here, there. now. Everywhere. […]