Water Poem

A slow, liquid drift of images under a quiet voice, asking you to sit with memory and loss rather than follow a story.

Directed by

Trâm Anh Nguyễn

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Trâm Anh Nguyễn

Overview

Water Poem is an experimental documentary short film in which a Vietnamese trans man recites a poem as images drift and shift beneath words, in an exploration of water against boundaries of time. A meditation on transness, ancestral memory, and grief on the body that carries the way a river carries sediment.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Identity, memory, grief, gender

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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