This installation is composed of found photographs from newspaper reports that show people pointing into a seemingly empty landscape: something often found in Vietnamese newspapers as photographers usually arrive at the scene of an event only after it has taken place. An eerie yet humorous reminder that past events are always beyond our grasp.
Also in this combined programme
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Non-chronological History
The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors. -
Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity
A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestr -
Sedimentation of Memory
This installation examines the caves of Cannerberg, located on the Dutch-Belgian border, which bear traces of its layered history. -
Her Luminous Distance
This installation oscillates between archival images of stars, craters on the moon and under-recognised women scientists in space stations. -
A Man Called Love
A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military dictatorshi -
Recollections of Long Lost Memories
A present-day hippy finds his way into historical photographs that mark Malaysian history in this humorous slide installation. -
Between a Gaze and a Gesture
With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain. -
Fossil Locomotion
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.
Film details
- Country of production
- Vietnam
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
- Premiere status
- None
