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Run time:
7 min.
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Canada
The inspiration for this project comes directly from its source, a collection of poems by Toronto poet Souvankham Thammavongsa entitled Found. The preface to the book reads: In 1978, my parents lived in building #48, Nong Khai, Thailand, a Lao refugee camp. My father kept a scrapbook รปlled with doodles, addresses, postage stamps, maps, measurements. He threw it out and when he did, I took it and found this. The pages of the original scrapbook are our only windows into this extraordinary past. To stay true to the original spirit of the book and to the poet, the film is an exploration of the world that these poems invoke. Using biographical text, animation, old photos, home videos, and narrated poetry, the film is a meditation on the theme of reconnecting to one's past and trying to decipher its impact on the present.
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