Into the Violet Belly (2022)

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.

Released

2022-09-30

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

20 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi

TMDB rating

2.0/10 from 1 votes