Where’s Vietnam by Antoine Vaillant

saigontoine — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:02:00 +0700

A nation that does not invite rebellion among her poets has already destroyed them. I swear that every tree is top secret, green with shady clues that will inevitably suggest a subversive line of inquiry. No, there is never a society that is doomed before his poets choose to accept doom

RESUME

The sky slump on Saigon, deploys his lightning on a burning asphalt. The river spits her streams, the arroyos vomit their strings and the worlds go down the houses. The snake escaped from the pagodas is sliding through the arteries of Saigon, womens in aodais, crashing motorbikes, scratching cyclos, blooding monsoon, feverish storm, blured streets of humans, without memories. The nausea storms the city, wraps all, all, all ; with no head, no gaze, no soul. History should be a lesson but occurs again somewhere else in the world ; a place named Irak ; let’s shout for the profound past of people of Vietnam to carve it into the immemorial stone.

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WHERE’S VIETNAM

A film by Antoine Vaillant

A slam poetry by Harvey Bialy

Soundtrack by Billy Bang

Experimental film

Vietnam

2007

20’

DVCam – anamorphic

Color / B&W

Son 5.1

Actifilms Production

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Screenplay & direction : Antoine Vaillant / Original slam poetry : Harvey Bialy / Lectures : Karen Maldonado & Rich Streitmatter-Tran / Original Soundtrack Billy Bang / Additional soundtrack : Trinh Cong Son - Khanh Ly / Photography & sound : Antoine Vaillant / Interpretation & subtitling : Nguyen Ngoc Tin, Le My Hong / Editing : Nicolas Bole / Sound design : Fabien Bourgeois / Executive production : Actifilms

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THANKS

Le My Hong / NSUT Nguyen Vinh Son / Karen Maldonado / Christian Denier / Jordan Mintzer / Pier Laurenza / Ba Tach /

Actifilms Saigon - Tag - experimental

Where’s Vietnam by Antoine Vaillant