Letters from Panduranga

Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s essay film is a quiet meditation on the omnipresence of history and the changing meanings of space. Drawing inspiration from Chris Marker’s Letters from Siberia, Nguyen’s film is a road movie structured by a letter exchange between a man and woman about various Vietnamese provinces, including Ninh Thuan: once the spiritual home of the Cham community, it is now the planned site for Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant.