Unidentified Vietnam No. 18 (2007)

Overview

“Unidentified Vietnam No. 18” examines the contested relationship between Vietnam and the US. Lin + Lam mine the material artifacts of the archive. Situated within the present, they study and even inhabit the past, re-enacting propagandistic gestures. Through these actions of retrieval and remembrance, the film ponders how US intervention has failed and considers the dangers of its repetition.

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