ON HEALING LAND, BIRDS PERCH (ĐẤT LÀNH CHIM ĐẬU)

A short documentary that tells the remarkable stories behind one of the most iconic photos in history, while acting as a portal into the “varied carols,” to borrow from Walt Whitman, of trauma and the American journey. This is the first documentary, from a Vietnamese born filmmaker that explores the continuing aftershocks of the Vietnam War from the perspectives of both sides of the war: North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese including Vietnamese Americans alive today. The story is told through the iconic Pulitzer winning photo of General Loan shooting a Vietcong captain Nguyen Van Lem in the head on the second day of the 1968 Tet Offensive.

Credits

Director(s):

Naja Pham Lockwood

Producer(s):

Julian Cautherley

Presented as Part Of Vietnamese Journeys – Marking Fifty Years of Memory, Migration, and Resilience

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ON HEALING LAND, BIRDS PERCH (ĐẤT LÀNH CHIM ĐẬU)

A short documentary that tells the remarkable stories behind one of the most iconic photos in history, while a...
34 min | Naja Pham Lockwood | United States | English, Vietnamese | English
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