(Into the Violet Belly)

Content: Interweaving family lore, mythology, science fiction, and digital abstraction, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s film follows the collaboration between the artist and her mother, Thuyen Hoa, who fled Vietnam after the end of the American War via a near-calamitous sea journey. Oscillating between voices, visual registers, and timescales—was it seven months or seven thousand years?— Into The Violet Belly offers up an image of its multiplicitous structure: a massive digital swarm, tiny avatars of migrating bodies, swimming in an infinite blue.

Countries:

Belgium,

Denmark,

Germany,

Iceland,

Malta

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

20 minutes

Year:

2022

Directors:

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi

Actors:

Crews:

Director

Editor

Director of Photography

Writer

Director of Photography