Sound-less: A film screening and artist talk with Nguyen Trinh Thi
05:30 pm – 07:30 pm, Fri, 08 Nov 2024
EMASI Nam Long
No. 147, street no. 8, Nam Long residential area, D7, HCMC
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Language: English
From the organizer:
Nguyen Art Foundation and the Art and Media Studies program at Fulbright University Vietnam are delighted to co-host a screening program and talk with internationally established artist and filmmaker Nguyen Trinh Thi.
Nguyen Trinh Thi is a Hanoi-based artist and filmmaker whose practice consistently investigates the role of memory in the necessary unveiling of hidden, displaced or misinterpreted histories. A signature trait of her moving image practice has been a constantly evolving approach toward citation, reuse, and editing of still and moving images, reflecting her ongoing exploration of improvisational and exploratory modes of cinematic narrative that skirt univocality and linearity. Her multimedia works traverse boundaries between film, documentary, video art, installation, and performance, exploring the potential of sound and listening. She investigates the multiple relations between image, sound, and space, combined with ongoing interests in history, memory, ecology, representation, and the unknown.
Nguyen Trinh Thi is the founder and director of Hanoi DOCLAB, an independent center for experimental and documentary film. Her recent exhibitions include installations at Artes Mundi 10 (Wales), Thailand Biennale 2023, documenta 15, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, the 21st Biennale of Sydney, the 13th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, and the 60th Venice Biennnale.
Screening program followed by Q&A with the artist:
‘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.
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.
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