Join us for a talk and discussion led by academic and writer Jay Jomas Quintos on indigenous cinema in the Philippines and how it relates to the work of Nguyễn Trinh Thi.
Upcoming Event
Nguyễn Trinh Thi, How to Improve the World (still), single-channel, colour and black and white video with sound, 2021
Quintos will outline his research into the work of Filipino filmmakers such as Arnel Mardoquio, and how notions of indigeneity and resistance are manifested in their films. Nguyễn Trinh Thi's film How to Improve the World (2021) will be discussed in relation to these filmmakers; drawing and testing connections between these moving image practices across distinct cultures and histories.
Jay Jomar Quintos is a PhD candidate at Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago. He is currently on study leave as associate professor at the University of the Philippines. With folk studies, literary studies and cinema studies as research interests, his critical and creative works have already appeared in various publications.
Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a Hanoi-based filmmaker and artist. Traversing boundaries between film and video art, installation and performance, her practice currently explores the power of sound and listening, and the multiple relations between image, sound, and space, with ongoing interests in history, memory, representation, ecology and the unknown.
In 2009, Nguyễn founded and directed Hanoi DOCLAB, an independent centre for documentary film and moving image, and her works have been shown at several international festivals and exhibitions, such as; documenta 15, Artes Mundi, the Oberhausen short film festival, the Singapore Biennale, the Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai and the Biennale of Sydney. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Hans Nefkens Foundation, Mori Art Museum, M+ and Singapore Art Museum Moving Image Commission.