ma rencontre avec des vietkieu newyorkais

Bonjour les amis,
J’ai eu l’honneur ces derniers jours, apres quelques recherches sur le net bien sur, d’etre accueilli et invite par la communaute vietkieu de New york a participer a leurs activites dont l’une des premieres pour moi a ete de visionner quelques documentaires, tous tournes au Vietnam. En voici les grandes lignes:
Saturday, November 8th to Cantor Film Center at NYU, 36 East 8th Street (at 5th Ave), New York NY 10003. IVCE http://www.ivce.org is pleased to announce our upcoming event in the United States. The premiere of documentary films from Vietnam.
1. Letter from Dong Van, directed by Nguyen Huu Tuan.
2. Streets and Sidewalks: The (Re) public space of Vietnam, directed by Tranviet Thuy.
3. Father, Mother apologize you, directed by Phan Huyen Thu.
Film: DVD, Color, English subtitles.
Synopsis:
1. Letter from Dong Van, 23 minutes: « Dong Van is a district 150 kilometers from Ha Giang, towering 1,200 meters above the sea level, making the dome of the entire country. The largest ethnic group here is the H’mong. Their hamlets scatter on high mountain slopes. When I first came here, I sometimes asked myself why the H’mong people had chosen to build their lives on such brutal lands. Their choice is still a mystery to me… »
2. Streets and Sidewalks, 10 minutes: The (Re)public space of Vietnam: The film looks the use of streets and sidewalks as a public (and private) space and the people who make a living by having various occupations on the sidewalks. The film is part of a larger project but this segment provides viewers a glimpse of contemporary Vietnam in the market economy era.
3. Father, Mother apologize you, 37 minutes: « A poor bricklayer, Tong Phuoc Phuc, from Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province, joins a group of “Volunteers” to collect dead fetuses and bodies of children, unclaimed, to bury them in a cemetery on top of a small hill, called Hon Thom, in the village of Xuan Ngoc, Vinh Ngoc District, Khanh Hoa Province. The bricklayer has found a few surviving children, abandoned by their parents, brought them home and cares for them, hoping that their parents would come look for them one day and send them to schools… »
J’y ai pris enormement de plaisir et engrange plus que j’en esperais a travers les debats qui ont suivi les projections.
quelques photos…

Le photographe, poete et realisateur de « Letter from Dong Van » Nguyen Huu Tuan.

La realisatrice de « Father, Mother apologize you » Phan Huyen Thu en compagnie de votre serviteur et le professeur Collin, specialiste des cultures asiatiques a l’universite de colombia.
…et la pochette de son film