Film Screening “Homostratus” and Talk with Filmmaker Siu Pham

Sat 07 Nov 2015, 7 pm
Nha San Collective’s new space

From Nha San Collective:

Nha San Collective warmly invites you to the screening of “Homostratus” and talk with director Siu Pham. The filmmaker will share her point of views about cinema aesthetics and her new film project “The endless road” in post-production. It’s a cinematic journey to the death in searching for the paradise of youth on the highlands of northern Vietnam.

“Homostratus” gives a portrait of contemporary society of Ho Chi Minh City with a unique style filled of dynamism and humor. A city in explosive development. A magma of images reflects, without consistency, all ideals of consumption. In this confusion, a particular destiny could be a daily life of everybody: a grandmother is dying, a divorced woman who does not want to take care of her teenage child, an anxious father initiates his son earning his own living, etc… Many fragments like metaphoric paintings structured the movie. Human stratum became a surrealist poem.

Born in Hanoi, Siu Phạm studied Art History and Film Critique at the University of Geneva. She has been working in contemporary theatre and making various documentaries with Jean Luc Mello. Her first feature film “Here and There” was selected in the New Current section of the Busan International Film Festival in 2011. Her second feature film “Homostratus” won Best Unique Vision at the Queens World Film Festival in New York. She has also held painting exhibition entitled “Companion – Chair and Wind” in HCMC in 2014.

Facebook page of “The endless road”

*To support Nhasan Collective’s further activities, we have a suggested donation of 30k each, including one free drink.

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Communication partner: Hanoi Grapevine

Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advice, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focuses on.

If you are interested and curious about experimental art, and want to have conversation with the working artists, please visit

Nha San COLLECTIVE 15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi Website: www.nhasanstudio.org Email: [email protected]