As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also our own bodies which are conditioned by society to stray away from our most authentic existence.
Yet these bodies of ours are the vessels we sail to embark on a lifetime voyage of return to our original selves. It is our bodies that navigate the treacherous tides of normative systems that impose themselves on our very being. And it is our bodies that act as community lighthouses for collective liberation.
Ultimately, the landscape of our bodies is our blueprint to remembering, to healing, to blooming.
Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental Japanese poems known as “Haiku”.
A short cinematic poetry film. Based on the poem "Time" by Anxhelo Llangozi.
Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".
Poem in a frame.
The main morality is the chronic desire for rest
Within the historians, filmmakers, astronomers and the bread
Which once was dough front to back
Relationship stops along the way
You are not a wax-work in a glass
Become the concept of freedom Freedom exists and must bring fruit
The universe glancing for purchase reasoned
Frame... within a frame... within a frame... poetic... dark and tragic...
eyes roam / dancing in step with / my feet which praise the ground
a poem. trees. fragments of fritz. movement.
A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.
a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen
A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.
A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.
A poem about a person with jelly for a head.
Video poem for SPAM Zine 004
The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which women poets were a very strong presence.
A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.
An adaptation of a children's poem called Chanson des escargots qui vont à l'enterrement by Jacques Prévert, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Filmed in Paris, France and Los Angeles, California.
The story of a young Saudi poet who receives the prestigious title The Prince of Poets (Amir Al-Shu’ara), and is later nominated to recite a welcome poem before King Salman. However, one word would render this festive evening into a nightmare.
A poet and his walk through a future of the dystopian present.