HOME AGE TO AVALOKITEŚVARA
HOME AGE TO AVALOKITEŚVARA
Synopsis
HOME AGE TO AVALOKITEŚVARA is an ode to my confusing, nostalgic, grateful connection to Vietnamese and Tibetan Buddhism, and how it has shaped my childhood in more ways that I can seek to understand today. This short film is the crafted narrative of a multicultural Vietnamese-French-British second generation immigrant through the warm, colourful and naive perspective of my youthful spirit, as a way to honour, preserve and archive the emotional memory that is relatable to many second-generation Vietnamese Buddhists.
Models and/or AI techniques used
Stable Diffusion and OpenAI
- Director: Maria Thuý Hiên Than
- Writer: Maria Thuý Hiên Than
- Producer: Maria Thuý Hiên Than
- Sound and voiceover: Maria Thuý Hiên Than i Ben Ibbotson (SpiderPlant)
- Archival footage: Khanh Ahn Pagode
- Country: United Kingdom
Running time: 7 minutes
Year of production: 2023