UNCERTAIN ETHNOGRAPHERS: short films from Southeast Asia
Curated by Dini Adanurani & Bảo Hân
Fundraiser in aid of Southeast Asia Floods Relief
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Letters from Panduranga (35', Vietnam, 2017)
Nguyen Trinh Thi
The essay film, made in the form of a letter exchange between a man and a woman, was inspired by the fact that the government of Vietnam plans to build the country’s first two nuclear power plants in Ninh Thuan (formerly known as Panduranga), right at the spiritual heart of the Cham indigenous people, threatening the survival of this ancient matriarchal Hindu culture that stretches back almost two thousand years.
At the border between documentary and fiction, the film shifts audience attention between foreground and background, between intimate portraits and distant landscapes, offering reflections around fieldwork, ethnography, art, and the role of the artist.
Bio
Nguyen Trinh Thi is a Hanoi-based filmmaker and artist. Traversing boundaries between film and video art, installation and performance, her practice currently explores the power of sound and listening, and the multiple relations between image, sound, and space, with ongoing interests in history, memory, representation, ecology, and the unknown.
Nguyen’s works have been shown at international festivals and exhibitions including documenta, Artes Mundi, Lyon Biennale, the Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Sydney Biennale, the Mori Art Museum, and Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial.
@thidoclab
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Here We Are (20', Thailand, 2023)
Chanasorn Chaikitiporn
A housekeeper receives a film made by her daughter. The film, combining found footage of Thailand during the Cold War with present-day images of Bangkok, triggers a re-telling of her own story of coming to the capital.
Bio
Chanasorn Chaikitiporn is a filmmaker and moving image artist whose interest lies in exploration and interrogation of socio-political histories of Thailand. His works examine questions on culture, political thought, identity and personal historical memory through the lens of semi-coloniality.
@pluemchanasorn
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