ຂອບໃຈ. cảm ơn. ua tsaug. អរគុណ. thank you for listening.

Click the linked text, as follows, to learn more about ⁠Mid Autumn Film Night 2022 (MAFN)⁠. Click the linked text to view select films from featured MAFN artists on ⁠SEAD’s Vimeo page.⁠Recorded in Nov 2022. Explicit language was permitted for each MAFN Talk conversation.

Find Sarah's short film at the following link, using the code "baila" to access it for the remainder of 2023.

"30 x 3 virgin remy: $200 OBO": https://vimeo.com/462756988

Our guest today is Sarah Nguyễn (they/she), a movement and information researcher with experience exploring dance and data in Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Seattle. Their research explores the ephemerality of movement, embodied practice and performance, and how humans make, retain, and reconstruct memory as acts of sensemaking around identity and events. Through research, movement, and intermedia collaborations, Sarah creates live and digital performances to inform and spark critical inquiry among viewers and participants, as community members. Their work has been featured in Radical Networks NYC, !!Con Santa Cruz, CA, Northwest Film Forum, The Craft Performance & Brew NYC, and Southeast Asia x Seattle Film & Literature Festival. Previously, she was a librarian for Luna Dance Institute, an archivist for the Mark Morris Dance Group Archive Project, and a 2021-2022 Dance/USA Fellow in Dance Archiving and Preservation for AXIS Dance Company. Currently, she is supporting efforts to preserve the cultural heritage of the social dance movement, Hustle.

In our conversation, Deryck and Tri hear about Sarah's experience in archival work and movement arts that converged in their experimental short film and oral storytelling project about their mom, Hoang, and a delicate chapter of her life spent in Vietnam.

Please send any inquiries regarding MAFN and MAFN Talk to Tri (he/anh/em pronouns) at ⁠[email protected]⁠. Send inquiries regarding The SEAD Project to ⁠[email protected]⁠.

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A brief of what the MAFN Talk podcast series came from: This past Oct 2022, The SEAD Project hosted our Mid-Autumn Film Night, or MAFN - an indoor screen feast of Southeast Asian past, present, and futures made by SEA filmmakers near and far and was a portal for the local Twin Cities SEA community to see through the artistic eyes of SEA creatives.

Listen to our interviews with featured film artists from MAFN. Also, check out our Rad Café 2021 conversation series, on SEA diasporic political co-learning.

These films are love letters inked in the sinking struggles, sojourns, and unsettled worlds that make up the complex and beautiful weight of our Southeast Asian communities.

Basic Timestamps / Podcast chapters

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Music: "River in the Jungle" by SnowMusicStudio

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