Bio

Hân Phạm is an emerging Vietnamese filmmaker and artist from Saigon, Vietnam. Experimenting with filmic and sonic experience and their haptic time/space structure, she wishes to construct a collective healing space for minorities community through a storytelling tradition that is rooted in reimagination, conversations, and collaboration. Her works think through the ephemerality of memory, language, and history in relation to the constantly changing landscapes, rooting in the inbetweeness of distance as space for radical reflection. Hân has exhibited at Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, and Vines Arts Festival. She is currently completing her BFA in Film at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Works

Once Upon a Time

  • 2020
  • Hân Phạm

Once Upon a Time is an archival film about childhood memory, dreams, and longings, all transformed through the magic of storytelling and experimental images. Juxtaposing the changing landscapes of Sài Gòn, Vietnam through history and children storytelling, the film becomes a space of happening where (queer) storytelling re-enact and provide justice to the past as an effort to reinvent the collective memory and provide the comfort of home in the turbulence of history and reality.

Once Upon a Time