Into The Violet Belly
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Interweaving family lore, mythology, science fiction, and digital abstraction, Into The Violet Belly captures the experimental collaboration between the artist and her mother, Thuyen Hoa, who survived a perilous sea journey while fleeing Vietnam after the end of the American War.
Directors Spotlight
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Director
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi is a Milky Way-based artist whose practice mutates in and out of sculpture, installation, performance, moving image, and interdisciplinary research. Her work explores imaginaries of freedom at the intersection of film-making and film theory, documentary and fiction, personal/prosthetic memory and individual/collective histories. Thuy-Han’s work has been presented in both the art and cinema context, including Belvedere 21, Vienna; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Villa Medici, Rome; Whitechapel Gallery, London; the 12th Berlin Biennale; the 20th Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival; the 60th New York Film Festival; the 33rd Singapore International Film Festival; among other spaces.
- Year: 2022
- Runtime: 19 minutes
- Country: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Malta
- Language: Vietnamese, English, German
- Director: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi in collaboration with Thuyen Hoa
- Animator: Dalena Tran
- Cinematographer: Hoang-Son Doan
- Composer: Vincent Yuen Ruiz, Franziska Aigner
- Editor: Liyo Gong
- Producer: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Pam van Delyra
- Screenwriter: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
- Premiere: Philadelphia
