Short film: “Má!” (2019)

20:02 mins

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This short film is dedicated to our dear Mother and the siblings that I have never met.

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An ethereal reverie of the living souls.

A girl wanders through places of reality and illusion. The dreamlike scenes serve as the afterworld where she exists. And her existence is but to seek a memory of her Mother whom she has never met. Memory is a shadow. Memory is self-deceit and memory is not truly memory.

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The film unveils my personal feelings for my sister and two brothers who had deceased before the sunlight could shine on their lives, and of whom I am on behalf to dedicate this to our Mother. I play a role of a dead and unreal character in the film, yet it is myself lost in my own maze. I have never deeply contemplated on the blood bond until I unintentionally listen to the prayers my Mother whispers every time she burns an incense  for my late siblings. My Mother beyond her intention does create a very picture in my mind of time and space, life and death, of all the simple things around us so close and treasured and at one so fragile.

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© 2019 Nguyen Vu Xuan Ha