Chúng Tôi Nhẩy Đầm ở Nhà (We Dance At Home), archival footage, Vietnamese & English subtitles, 7:07, 2017.

Chúng Tôi Nhẩy Đầm ở Nhà (We Dance At Home), revisits my family’s personal home video collections to explore my parents’ unique Vietnamese diasporic experiences living in Peterborough, a predominantly white town in Ontario. Through interviews and juxtaposing archival footage to present day documentation, together, we explore: How are their ideas of home changing? How do they navigate their memories of home? And what role did the home play in building a community?

This video work was commissioned by Reel Asian International Film Festival and Vtape for the program “Been Here So Long” to commemorate Ontario-Canada’s 150th to highlight Asian-Canadian histories within Ontario. Screened at Reaching Across Generations, Re:Frame Film Festival (Peterborough, 2021), Profit & Loss Symposium: artists consider Viet Nam, the war, and its effects (Toronto, 2020), Migration & Diaspora Shorts Program, SEAxSEA: Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival (Seattle, 2020), It’s Still You, Breakthroughs Film Festival (Toronto, 2019) and Been Here So Long, Reel Asian and Vtape commission for Ontario150 (Toronto, 2017).

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