Give as a gift
This short film set contains strong language and thematic material including death, grief, and suicide. Viewer discretion is advised.
The proof of a life lived in full or continuing to do so lies within the memory and act of recollection. The moments we get to sit down and reflect on ourselves can be specific and arbitrary all at once. The more one reminisces, the more they realize how these memories shaped and informed who they are, their personhood. Still, what’s in a memory? What is worth remembering? How and why should one remember? These are the questions in which this series of short films aims to answer.
To begin our journey down memory lane, Grandma’s Four Color Cards offers us insight on what it means to remember someone and take care of them as the years go by. As we go along, Happy Thoughts reflect and ruminate on life and death, on the present and the future as the heart and mind grow weary of things they cannot control. To transition into the second half of this set, with a more experimental approach, Goodbye and Hello to My Dad is a remembrance and lingering of a loved one. Finally, 100 Days invite us to consider the efforts of grief and memory as they work in tandem to bring us closer to each other better than before.
“Don’t Forget to Remember Me” shares a deeply personal and thoughtful perspective on why we should remember to reconcile with the past, embrace the present, and look forward to the future.
By Katy Nguyen
An ex-captain for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam relives his experiences spending nearly 13 years in Việt Cộng reeducation camps. He speaks of the pain he endured, the family he was torn from, and the immeasurable loss he faced. Now in America and grateful for the life he has built there, he looks to a hopeful future.
This short film set contains strong language and thematic material including death, grief, and suicide. Viewer discretion is advised.
The proof of a life lived in full or continuing to do so lies within the memory and act of recollection. The moments we get to sit down and reflect on ourselves can be specific and arbitrary all at once. The more one reminisces, the more they realize how these memories shaped and informed who they are, their personhood. Still, what’s in a memory? What is worth remembering? How and why should one remember? These are the questions in which this series of short films aims to answer.
To begin our journey down memory lane, Grandma’s Four Color Cards offers us insight on what it means to remember someone and take care of them as the years go by. As we go along, Happy Thoughts reflect and ruminate on life and death, on the present and the future as the heart and mind grow weary of things they cannot control. To transition into the second half of this set, with a more experimental approach, Goodbye and Hello to My Dad is a remembrance and lingering of a loved one. Finally, 100 Days invite us to consider the efforts of grief and memory as they work in tandem to bring us closer to each other better than before.
“Don’t Forget to Remember Me” shares a deeply personal and thoughtful perspective on why we should remember to reconcile with the past, embrace the present, and look forward to the future.
By Katy Nguyen
An ex-captain for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam relives his experiences spending nearly 13 years in Việt Cộng reeducation camps. He speaks of the pain he endured, the family he was torn from, and the immeasurable loss he faced. Now in America and grateful for the life he has built there, he looks to a hopeful future.