Movies: Christina C. Nguyen

A documentary filmmaker attempts to imagine, along with his father, his grandmother's experience at a labor camp during the holocaust....

In the fictional city of Santa Teresa, located on the border between Mexico and USA, the researcher Juan de Dios Martínez straddles the line between journalism and detective work. Based on an unfinished book by Roberto Bolaño, his character investiga...

In this brief film, the hand-processed celluloid manages to capture the mysterious figure of an exorcist in Sri Lanka....

Borrowing its title from a literary genre, the film acknowledges the indeterminacy of both fiction and the self. Noir elements are reduced to deadpan gestures under bright California sunlight. Field recordings made in New Zealand are heard as women s...

An obsession with Lesley Gore's T.A.M.I. Show performance of "You Don’t Own Me"....

A retrieved picture of a window elicits memories and the impulse to recreate a lost site. By this same window, an eight year old child feels the cold air on his face and imagines the future....

sound from image / image from color // inquiries into the analog film system...

An imaginary look back at the present and distant past from the point of view of the year 2049. The return of an exile to Los Angeles decades after social and environmental collapse. He recreates the memories of his past (our present), and imagines t...