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.
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Director, Writer
McQueen74%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Public Speaking70%
Above Majestic73%
My Mom Jayne80%
Sherman's March67%
Maternal Instinct71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
180° South72%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
The Class of ‘9271%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
The Cheshire Murders65%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster69%
Love, Marilyn66%
Dawg Fight65%
