2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryTrinh T. Minh-haVietnam

Trinh T. Minh-ha – Forgetting Vietnam (2016)

Synopsis
One of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam involves a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam’s curving S-shaped coastline. Influential feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s lyrical film essay commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of the war draws inspiration from ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture. Minh-ha’s classic Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) used no original footage shot in the country; in Forgetting Vietnam images of contemporary life unfold as a dialogue between land and water—the elements that form the term “country.” Fragments of text and song evoke the echoes and traces of a trauma of international proportions. The encounter between the ancient as related to the solid earth, and the new as related to the liquid changes in a time of rapid globalization, creates a third space of historical and cultural re-memory—what local inhabitants, immigrants and veterans remember of yesterday’s stories to comment on today’s events.

1.67GB | 1h 30mn | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/594D2B025D04635/Forgetting.Vietnam.2016.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-Cinefeel.mkv

Language(s):Vietnamese, English
Subtitles:English [Hard]

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