Film
The Specter of Ancestors Becoming
2019 · 28m · Family · History
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Overview
A four-channel video installation that continues on from the echoes of French colonial subjects. Senegalese soldiers, or tirailleurs, were among the forces deployed to Indochina to combat the Vietnamese uprising against French rule. During the war and after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu (when Frantz Fanon declared the beginning of the end of the French Empire), hundreds of Vietnamese women and their children migrated to West Africa with Senegalese husbands who had been stationed in Indochina. Many other soldiers left their wives and took only their children, while still others took mixed or Vietnamese children not their own and raised them in Senegal without connection to their origins.
Crew
- Tuan Andrew NguyenDirector
Details
- Release date
- June 6, 2019
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Vietnamese
- Runtime
- 28m
- Genres
- Family, History
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