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Thân Thể Rừng Thiêng (Landscape of Our Body)
cát nguyên and Trâm Anh Nguyễn (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) YOUTH
Duration: 18:24
Content warning: Mention of violence, displacement
As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, society displaces us from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also our own bodies.
Yet these bodies of ours are the vessels we sail to embark on a lifetime voyage of return to our original selves. It is our bodies that navigate the treacherous tides of normative systems that impose themselves on our very being. And it is our bodies that act as community lighthouses for collective liberation.
Ultimately, the landscape of our bodies is our blueprint to remembering, to healing, to blooming.
Director, Cinematographer, Producer, Voices Performer: Trâm Anh Nguyễn
Writer, Lead Cast, Producer, Voices Performer: cát nguyên
Music Composer & Sound Designer: Trần Quốc Thịnh
F-O-R-M is based in so-called Vancouver, in what is colonially known as Canada, on the unceded and stolen traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. F-O-R-M continues to reflect on and bring attention to connection to bodies, land and movement through filmmaking, documentation and storytelling. We are grateful to share and witness these stories together while inspiring movement towards positive change, wherever you may be.