DANCE FILM OPEN CALL

UNTIL FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ngày Mới (A new day has come)

NGUYEN Hai Yen (Red)

Friday 3. Nov 2023

20:00 GMT+1

Metropolis Kino

Dance Film

Vietnam

| Synopsis

THE VIDEO ‘Ngày Mới’ (A new day has come), directed by Red is a poetic visual response to the new track “Ngày Mới” of Vietnam-based electronic band Tiny Giant. The film depicts a world in constant motion that opens up when we slumber. Cavernous darkness is a habitat of transit, between worlds and the axis of time. In the heart of this motion, memories, knowledge, sadness and joy will leave their residues without completely disappearing: perhaps they have fallen into another place, another turning of time. The moment of transit in the cave doubles as both childhood and adulthood come to the surface in sync, where we bend closer in proximity to the inner child, the taste of a spoonful of innocence lingering on the tongue. Deity-like characters also appear in the video. They are gods of the filmmaker’s own world turned into images, as any person can have their own interpretation of a god. In this film, God is understood as a provider of support and company, and trust is a form of custody. We trust in the things that can protect and guide us. The eyeless horses, then, appear as mascots and attachment figures that walk with the children towards the world.

Part of the choreography was initially inspired by the ‘Kitsune Wedding’ scene in ‘Dreams’ – a film by Akira Kurosawa, in combination with experimental hip hop moves and the krumping stomps, choreographed and performed by Saigon-based dancer Kim from Ladifférence Saigon and Hanoi-based dancer Quay Trần from Abnormal Conceptz.

| Credits

𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Written by Tiny Giant (Linh Ha & Tobias Paramore)
Recording / Mixing / Mastering: Tobias Paramore
Vocals: LinhHafornow
Rap: Gumn (/Phan Dung Nghi)

𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Conceived and directed by: Red
Producer: Red
Production Assistant: Luna

𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗦 & 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗦
Kim (Lâm Duy Phương)
Quay Trần

𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗔 & 𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
D.O.P & Cam-Op: Nguyễn Quang Vinh
Lighting: Nguyễn Quang Vinh
Camera & Lighting Technician: Tây
Equipments: Film K26

𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
Art Director: Red
Set Designer: Red
Props: Chú Đoàn Tuấn Dương, Hải Yến, Luna
Typo Sketch: Dan Ni
Typo Digitize & Materialize: Lê Qui Ta

Poster Visual Effect: Dan Ni
Graphic designer: Tâm Đỗ

𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Post Producers: Red, Cù Huy Tài
Editor: Lượng Trần @loung3004, Nguyễn Quang Vinh, GELO, Red
VFX: GELO
Chroma Key: Nguyễn Xuân Minh
Color Grading & Conform: Cù Huy Tài
Trailer by: Lượng Trần x Red
Lyrics translation: Gumn x Red, edited by Tobias

𝗖𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
Costume Design: In collaboration with
Stylist: Red
Tailor: Thu Trang

𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗥 & 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘-𝗨𝗣
M.U.A: Luna Nguyễn Thu Thủy
Hair Designer: Linh Vếp

𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Na Dương coal mine, Lộc Bình, Lạng Sơn, Viet Nam
Nà Lả cave, Văn Quan, Lạng Sơn, Viet Nam

𝗥𝗘𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬
Kinergie Studio

NGUYEN Hai Yen (Red)

| Website

anewdayhascome.com

| Social

| Biography

NGUYEN Hai Yen (Red) is a Lang Son (Vietnam) based video artist and independent dance producer whose practice focuses on the multidisciplinary approaches which addresses the shifting boundaries between different forms of art, fiction and documentary, life and death, human and animal, living beings and spirits…Her works engage with dreams, personal landscape and self-reflection. Since 2020, she has been co-directing MORUA (with choreographer Ngo Thanh Phuong), a dance collective and artist-in-residency program aiming to encourage the next-generation of performing/ performance/ interdisciplinary dance practitioners to research and exchange their methods of body-and-movements, to broaden the dialogue about dance in Vietnam.

Red’s films were featured at Fundacion-PROA, White Chapell Gallery, Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Fifth Wall Fest, Mikino Film Festival, Seashorts Film Festival, Sàn Art, Teater Garasi’s program…Red is a Prince Claus Seed Award Recipient 2022.

| Biography

NGUYEN Hai Yen (Red) is a Lang Son (Vietnam) based video artist and independent dance producer whose practice focuses on the multidisciplinary approaches which addresses the shifting boundaries between different forms of art, fiction and documentary, life and death, human and animal, living beings and spirits…Her works engage with dreams, personal landscape and self-reflection. Since 2020, she has been co-directing MORUA (with choreographer Ngo Thanh Phuong), a dance collective and artist-in-residency program aiming to encourage the next-generation of performing/ performance/ interdisciplinary dance practitioners to research and exchange their methods of body-and-movements, to broaden the dialogue about dance in Vietnam.

Red’s films were featured at Fundacion-PROA, White Chapell Gallery, Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Fifth Wall Fest, Mikino Film Festival, Seashorts Film Festival, Sàn Art, Teater Garasi’s program…Red is a Prince Claus Seed Award Recipient 2022.

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