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Into the Violet Belly (2022)

Collaboration w/ Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi

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Into the Violet Belly is a film a part of a larger installation by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi entitled This undreamt of sail is watered by the white wind of the abyss. Installed initially at the Hamburger Bahnof for the 12th Berlin Biennale, the work has additionally been adapted for cinema and live-performance.

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. — 60th New York Film Festival

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This undreamt of sail is watered by the white wind of the abyss Installation

This undreamt of sail is watered by the white wind of the abyss (2022)

installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnof, photo by Jens Franke

Into the Violet Belly Still
Into the Violet Belly Still
Into the Violet Belly Still
Into the Violet Belly Still
Into the Violet Belly Still
Into the Violet Belly Still

Into the Violet Belly (2022)

film stills. Courtesy of Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi

Film Credits

Directors - Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Thuyen Hoa
Animation and Computer Graphics - Dalena Tran
Producers - Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Maria Pham
Cast - Anonymous, Anonymous, Chicken, Jellyfish
Assistant Director - Johannes Lehnen
Cinematographer - Hoang-Son Doan
Camera Assistant - Makrem Ayari
Underwater Cinematographer - Alexandra Brixy
Underwater Camera Assistant - Saskia Luft
Safety Divers - Catalin Bindu, Luciano Ellul, Marco Spinedi
Photographer - Julian Irlinger
Location Scouts - Dymar Angileri, Maria Pham, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Film Editor - Liyo Gong
Sound Editor - Valentin Mazingarbe
Sound Recordist - Mads Ulriksen
Field Recordist - Francesco Fabris
Composer - Vincent Yuen Ruiz
Bass Flautist - Louise Hjorth Hansen
Cellist - Flavia Passigli
Double Bassist - Vincent Yuen Ruiz
Flautist - Elisa Azzara
Percussionists - Greta Eacott, Szymon Gąsiorek, Francesco Toninelli
Violist - Pauline Hogstrand
Viola da Gamba Player - Nicole Hogstrand
Sound Engineer (SEWING BODIES) - Tommy Kamp Vestergaard
Mixing (SEWING BODIES) - Jesper Nørbæk
Mastering (SEWING BODIES) - Joel Krozer
Composer, Performer, Producer (song) - Franziska Aigner
Poetry (CHANT CHỮ CHẾT) - Quyen Nguyen-Hoang
Mixing (song) - Tim Roth
Mixing (sonic composition) - Enyang Urbiks
Mastering (song and sonic composition) - Enyang Urbiks
Colorist - Loup Brenta
Story (ONE HUNDRED EGGS) - Thich Nhat Hanh
Subtitle Translator - Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Proofreader and Editor - Bassem Saad
Subtitle Editor - Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi

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