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Using biographical text, animation, old photos, home videos, and narrated poetry this visually rich film meditates on the theme of reconnecting to one's past and trying to decipher its impact on the present. In 1978, Toronto-poet Souvankham Thammavongsa’s parents lived in a Lao refugee camp in Thailand, where she was born. Her father kept a scrapbook filled with doodles, addresses, postage stamps, maps and measurements. He threw this scrapbook out one day and when he did, she took it and found this …
Described as "he most visually remarkable short of those screened..." by Huffington Post's Brad Schreiber and picked as one of the most notable films during the 2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest
Magical and poetic... - Jason Anderson, Toronto Star
With exquisite tenderness, the movie evokes the book's powerful story...- John Goddard, Toronto Star
Although it is a short film, I consider it as important as Nerakhoon in presenting the narrative of Lao refugees. Both of these films possess a high degree of art that transcends conventional expectations of refugee stories. It is very much in line with the way Lao artists around the world have approached our experience - Bryan Thao Worra, Award winning Laotian-American Writer
A film like a poem... The enchantingly beautiful images, which leave more in the dark than they bring to light, seem to float. This is a cinematic jewel, a densely crafted mesh of animated elements, documents and found objects from a childhood in no man’s land that plays on the limits of the genre - Cornelia Klau, Programmer, DOK Leipzig
Nath's film is a beautifully meditative piece, one that shows why shorts deserve to be treated as a distinct medium of their own rather than as less-long features - Todd Brown, Twitch Film
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