run + i (ruin) (2020)
Stop-motion animation with sound
3’6”
This short animation is a compilation of images about the fate of the land containing the Independence Palace building. Each image or symbol is a micro memory fragment related to this land. They are the day Saigon fell, and Vietnam reunited in 1975; the American creation of the M16 rifle; Marvel’s Iron Man and Captain America hero narrative; and the speculative history of the existence of a Khmer temple on this land before it was occupied, leveled and buried by the Vietnamese. The simultaneous appearance of different historical era details in each film scene is selected randomly by the computational algorithm that generates the variables. These variables resemble the overlapping connections of the history of the peripheries during the Cold War.