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.
Directing | Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi | Director |
Writing | Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi | Writer |
Camera | Alexandra Brixy | Director of Photography |
Camera | Son Doan | Director of Photography |
Editing | Liyo Gong | Editor |