Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Nguyễn Trinh Thi (b. 1973, Vietnam; lives in Hanoi) is a pioneering independent filmmaker and media artist whose films and installations interrogate memory, archival silence and social trauma in post‑war Vietnam. Educated in journalism, photography and international studies (in the U.S.), she creates investigative video essays and documentary experiments that deploy found footage, sound and narrative to uncover marginalized histories and alternative imaginaries.
Explores the erasure of indigenous Cham culture amid Vietnam’s nuclear power plans through a letter exchange between a man and a woman.
Do you trust sound or image more? Listen closely to the sounds and images of the Indigenous peoples in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
