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13th DMZ Docs(2021)

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a.k.a How to Improve the World

NGUYEN Trinh Thi

  • Vietnam, South Korea
  • 2021
  • 46min
  • G
  • DCP
  • color

Filmmaking Visual Arts

Synopsis

Ddös Pöddik (a.k.a. How to Improve the World) is a film about listening. Reflecting on the past, present, and future of indigenous people in Vietnam's Central Highlands, the aurally-centered film foregrounds the indigenous sound, voice and music against a backdrop of a land that has gone through periods of Christianization, colonization, war, and socialist transformation.

 

This experiential essay film, puntuated with conversations between the filmmaker and her own 16-year-old daughter on visual and sound memories, can be seen as the third in Nguyen Trinh Thi¡¯s trilogy on indigenous cultures, following Letters from Panduranga (2015), and Fifth Cinema (2018).​ 

Director

  • NGUYEN Trinh Thi

     

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