6’40”
HD video
stereo
color
2019
HD video
stereo
color
2019
“At times, starts again. Noise. Semblance of noise. Speech perhaps. Broken. One by one. At a time. Broken tongue. Pidgeon tongue. Semblance of speech.”
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee
Written in Mongolia, sent to the USSR, re-discovered in the US - three letters from three generations of women examine how language can function as a site of alienation. In a film that is multilingual, multigenerational, and multivocal, three distinct voices echo each other over the span of thirty years.
2019 Terrain Biennial, Los Angeles, USA
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee
Written in Mongolia, sent to the USSR, re-discovered in the US - three letters from three generations of women examine how language can function as a site of alienation. In a film that is multilingual, multigenerational, and multivocal, three distinct voices echo each other over the span of thirty years.
2019 Terrain Biennial, Los Angeles, USA