Portland Film Festival

23 min "My Brother" - A Vietnamese-­‐American man (Michael) wrestles with his ambivalent and estranged relationship to a mentally ill half-­‐brother (Khanh). Through a playful bricolage of documentary and narrative forms, the story unfolds as a lyrical stream of experience and memory. On the brink of a personal crisis, Michael visits his surrogate father, Henry. Their conversations tease out mysteries of Michael’s past and push him toward a haunting reunion with Khanh on the streets of Portland.   

11 min "Baby Ipecac" - Baby Ipecac imagines the genesis of a relationship between “David” and “Patricia,” a pair of self-­‐destructive lovers and antagonists to the “hero’s journey” in Sway of the Knife. It is a bizarre, kinetic excursion into their volatile criminal dealings inside a hotel room. The usual drug deal becomes a hallucinatory web of paranoia, deception, and immanent peril.  

9 min "Waiting" - Waiting focuses on the trauma of suicide as experienced by, “Jessica,” Michael’s love interest in Sway of the Knife. We become immersed in the internal landscape of a woman who watches herself struggle with a spiral of distorted memories. Jessica wanders in a feedback loop through an amphitheater attempting to find her husband but discovers only painful answers.