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Forgetting Viet Nam
Title
Forgetting Viet Nam / a film by Trinh T. Minh-ha; commissioned [by] ACC Gwanjgu, Korea & HKW Berlin, Germany.
Publication
New York : Women Make Movies, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
"Shot in Hi-8 video in 1995 and in HD and SD in 2012"--Container.
This disc is a burned DVD-R and may not play in some DVD players or drives.
Directed, written and edited by Trinh T. Minh-ha; produced by Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier; music by The Six Tones and DOI Music.
Primarily on-screen narrative text in English, consisting of poetry and political or historical commentaries; occasional dialogue in Vietnamese with English subtitles.
Summary
Images unfold spatially as a dialogue between the two elements--land and water--that underlie the formation of the term "country." Carrying the histories of both visual technology and Vietnam's political reality, these images are also meant to feature 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. These elements combine to form what local inhabitants, immigrants and veterans remember of yesterday's stories to comment on today's events. Through the insights of these witnesses to one of America's most divisive wars, Vietnam's specter and her contributions to world history remain both present and all too easy to forget--Adapted from information on container.
Variant and related titles
Title on container: Forgetting Vietnam
Other formats
Also available online.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Vietnamese
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2017
Credits
Directed, written and edited by Trinh T. Minh-ha; produced by Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier; music by The Six Tones and DOI Music.
System details note
DVD-R; NTSC.
Videorecording number
W161192 Women Make Movies
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
History.
History.
Also listed under
Asia Culture Center, sponsoring body.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, sponsoring body.
Women Make Movies (Firm), film distributor.
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