Truong Minh Quy
2021
Death of Soldier
Truong Minh Quy
Truong Minh Qúy’s found footage film brings together multiple scenes depicting soldier’s deaths in Vietnamese propaganda films, revealing aesthetic patterns that speak to a nationalist agenda while hinting at a broader value system within Vietnamese society.
Death of Soldier
Viet and Nam
Truong Minh Quy
Nam and Việt love each other. Both are miners, working 1000 meters below ground, where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Nam's mother collects coal waste from the mines to make briquettes at her makeshift workshop. Coal earns them a living, while polluting the land and the sea. Nam, like other young people, has decided to leave the country soon. In his village, many families get out of poverty thanks to the money they receive from relatives working abroad, most of them illegal immigrants — underground money. Through a relative, Nam gets in touch with an agent who can smuggle people abroad in containers. But at that moment, Nam's father, a soldier who died in the war, comes back in his mother's dreams to tell her where he died. Nam, his mother and Việt go south to the old battlefield, following her dreams, to find the remains of his father.
Viet and Nam
Thành Phố Những Tấm Gương
Truong Minh Quy
Truong Minh Tuan, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Trang
In an uncertain future where Vietnam is on the verge of being submerged in water, a son, far away from home, remembers his family. By way of cinematic magical transformations, trivial stories and banal images suddenly become unreal, as if reflections of something beyond reality.
The City of Mirrors: A Fictional Biography
Sao Hoả Nơi Đáy Giếng
Freddy Nadolny Poustochkine, Truong Minh Quy
Truong Minh Quy
In 2053, Saigon, Vietnam is submerged in water. People have to move to the higher places for survival. The Vietnamese government has tried more than once to carry people to Mars, but their attempt turns out to be just a bitter failure.
Mars in the Well
