A lonely young woman gives a cherished pop song a bedroom karaoke rendition with her laptop screen as her only audience. A sweet and sensual tale of separated lovers plays out like background music for a walk through the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. Diane Severin Nguyen gives LED bursts of colour to the sound of silence. Your heart will turn into jelly in this charming heartache of a poem on loss of communication.
Also in this combined programme
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Communicating Vessels
A peculiar story about the inevitable merging of life and art, channelling seminal performances by Joan Jonas and Lygia Clark.
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They Parlaient Idéale
A quirky cast of intergenerational performers embark on a road trip through France, embodying a utopian possibility of a communal society.
Film details
- Countries of production
- USA, Vietnam
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 16"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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