Film screening of a contemporary Southeast Asian Artist: Nguyễn Trinh Thi

2205 Broadway,Boulder CO 80302

17 March, 2022

Description

East Window partners with University of Colorado, Boulder to present a series of film screenings of contemporary Southeast Asian Artists. Information on film being screened 3/17/22: Artist: Nguyễn Trinh Thi Name of Film: Letters from Panduranga Duration of Film: 35 minutes Film Summary: An essay film in the form of a letter exchange, Nguyễn’s personal and poetic film explores the complex legacy of cultural and historical occupation and its ongoing presence in the indigenous Cham community. This series is guest curated by Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Colorado Boulder. Cohen researches and teaches courses on art concerned with public sphere formation, decolonization, political violence, and ecology and environmentalism. She co-edited the volume, The Phot filmic: Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Cornell University Press, 2016), and her book Preventive Publics: Contemporary Art and Nonviolence in 21st-Century Europe (forthcoming with Duke University Press in spring 2023) examines contemporary art that grapples with cross-cultural affiliation and the active imagining of nonviolence in 21st-century Europe. Her new research addresses questions of ecological devastation and the formation of critical publics in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Singapore. https://eastwindow.org/