With exquisitely composed images and a shimmering sound-track, Trinh T. Minh-ha revisits her native Vietnam forty years after the war — a home lost in multiple layers of remembrance and oblivion. Mythologically born of a fragile equilibrium between land and water, the country once called đất nứớc vạn xuân — the land of 10,000 springs —  is now faced with a no less precarious balancing act. Is she doomed to become a Benjaminian image, in touristic snapshots, in diasporic nostalgia? Or is she reborn in a to-and-fro between the traditions linked to the solid earth, and the liquid changes of rapid globalization? 

In person: Trinh T. Minh-ha

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