Another City

Synopsis

When the urban landscape shapes the human relations: a mature woman, a bride and a group of young people seek proximity in the anonymity of the big city. A drenched middle-aged woman taking off her wig, gazing out of the glass windows, a young man bursting into tears in a karaoke room surrounded by tropical landscape wallpaper, a young woman trying to wipe a smear off of the wedding dress she’s wearing. Each predicament is woven seamlessly together by a familiar Asian refrain…

Director Biography

Phạm Ngọc Lân is a young emerging artist in Hanoi, Vietnam with the urban planning background. Using film and photography as two of the main tools to express his ideas, his art works attach special importance to the direct, poetry and especially the whimsical respects of human life. They are also associated with the urban relationship issue, spreading from the minimal city landscapes to the shift of the citizen’s consciousness.