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growing up is hurtful
Wednesday, November 17th, 2022 Dodge Media Archive Library, Orange, CA. this is a facebook post. In the moment i have the most fun here i...

Thi Chu
Nov 17, 20221 min read
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Subtitles - A real struggle or an excuse for a cultural myopia?
"Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films." A groundbreaking...

Thi Chu
Jul 12, 202212 min read
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Does place remind you of memories, or memories remind you of place?
When I was in elementary school, kids loved horror stories. Every post-lunch nap time, after the head teacher had left the room,...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 20227 min read
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A letter to the peach blossom on my table
Orange, CA 92866 February 1st, 2022 – The first day of Lunar New Year. Mung mot Tet. Dear my tiny branch of peach blossom, I have a tiny...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 20224 min read
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Versatile, I - Model Writing Poem
Model writing : Rita Joe, “I Lost My Talk” I Lost who I used to be, I lost my pride The badge printed on my Tee. When I was loved but am...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 20221 min read
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“The Horses of this Society" - Practice practicing
inspired by Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music - Glenn Kurtz Just like the relationship between black and white, left and right,...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 20223 min read
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Have you ever loved something so much that it hurts?
Those poems about Hanoi autumn, with yellow leaves falling on Thanh Nien street and slightly cool breezes blowing through your hair; the...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 20224 min read
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Identity in, and of, Cinema - discussion regarding revised Vietnamese Cinema Law 2021
They, as themselves... September 2021, a constructive online discussion titled ‘Ai Gop Y Gio Tay Len’ (Raise Your Hand To Raise Your...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 20223 min read
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A little bit of this and a little bit of that
Response to "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua Languages – are not words. Languages are gestures, eyes, hugs, high-fives –...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 20221 min read
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Before - Trilogy (Before Sunrise - Before Sunset - Before Midnight): Time Anchors in Romance
Twenty-six years ago, in 1995, a Parisian girl met an American boy on an Eurail. They spontaneously got off together at Vienna and spent...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 202211 min read
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Chungking Express: Theatricality and Time-Space Manipulation in Mise-èn-scene
Introducing Chungking Express based on the situation that Wong Kar-wai shot it during a break from the making of Ashes of Time (1994),...

Thi Chu
Mar 3, 20226 min read
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under the blue blanket
hot but cold inside cool but burnt inside this entire room has nothing to hug me to warm to ease, goosebump loose numb. I got mom on my...

Thi Chu
Oct 5, 20211 min read
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A poem for a muse
hehe first time ever I wrote a poem for someone, a long time ago it has nothing to do with Bali, but the visuals for it does - so oh well...

Thi Chu
Feb 22, 20211 min read
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Film Scripts
Octopus
- Feature
Logline: When a 13-year friendship of a young couple falls apart after just 2 years of marriage, each of them struggles to find what they truly need.
Trốn tìm về
- Shortfilm
Logline: Trong một đêm mất ngủ, một cụ già tìm về ngôi nhà tuổi thơ để hoàn thành trò chơi trốn tìm từ 70 năm trước cho kịp bữa cơm gia đình quây quần.
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