Unidentified Vietnam No. 18

2007 • Directed by

H. Lan Thao Lam

“Unidentified Vietnam No. 18” examines the contested relationship between Vietnam and the US. Lin + Lam mine the material artifacts of the archive. Situated within the present, they study and even inhabit the past, re-enacting propagandistic gestures. Through these actions of retrieval and remembrance, the film ponders how US intervention has failed and considers the dangers of its repetition.