Andrew Yuyi Truong

CIVIC follows Booker as he returns to South Central L.A. after several years away. Confined to the interior of his car, we watch as he interacts with the people and places he once knew, floating between moments of nostalgia and the subtle realities of a subconscious search for identity. 

Maps charts the tumultuous relationship between a working mother and her daughter throughout the years, examining the sacrifices parents make and the difficulties their children face, as we feel the fleeting quality of life.

Set in an unspecified future at the precarious edge of humanity’s possible extinction, "The Boat People" follows a group of children led by a strong-willed and resourceful little girl, who travel the seas and collect the stories of a world they never knew through objects that survived through time.

A jaded food courier runs into a moral dilemma where she has to make the decision to deliver an order that has been 'tainted'.

I didn’t realize how much you mean to me until you were gone. Everything reminds me of you. I am lost without you. I can only be whole again once you are back with me. Without the guide of her “lost love”, Thuy is on the verge of death by boredom. Aimless and indecisive. Having no agenda, she finds odd ways to entertain herself in the bustling city of Saigon, Vietnam.

Told through the point-of-view of the wandering spirit of the last Javan rhino that was poached in the jungles of Vietnam in 2010, the film takes us through a complex structure of narratives and visuals, both gruesome and beautiful, real and mythological, that have built and upheld certain Vietnamese traditions. From Chinese colonialism and its assertion through the practice of medicine, to French colonialism and their obsession with trophy kills, and throughout the Vietnam war, the animals tell a different side to the story.

The film explores the ways in which material contains memory and holds potential for transformation, reincarnation, and healing. It is inspired by the people of Quang Tri, on the North Central Coast of Vietnam, one of the most heavily bombed areas in the history of modern warfare. The story centers around a woman named Nguyet and her mother, who run a small junkyard on the outskirts of Quang Tri, and Nguyet's cousin Lai. Nguyet earns her living by scavenging and selling pieces of UXO (unexploded ordnances). She also compulsively crafts hanging mobiles from the remnants of the UXO. By chance, she discovers she that these sculptures, which are drawn from her own imagination, hold a remarkable resemblance to the works of Alexander Calder. She embarks on a journey to uncover the source of this uncanny likeness. [Overview courtesy of James Cohan Gallery]

First Generation showcases the Vietnamese American experience of growing up in the 90's through My-Linh, a young, mislead girl who must decide how she will fit into the two worlds that she inhabits.

First Generation showcases the Vietnamese American experience of growing up in the 90's through My-Linh, a young, mislead girl who must decide how she will fit into the two worlds that she inhabits.