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Which way is east notebooks from Vietnam
- Title
- Which way is east [motion picture] : notebooks from Vietnam / a film by Lynne Sachs, in collaboration with Dana Sachs.
- Publication
- San Francisco, Calif. : Canyon Cinema, 1994.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 4531 W C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 film reel (33 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
- Summary
- A personalized travelogue of the Sachs sisters on their journey to Vietnam. Narrated by the Dana and Lynne Sachs, the film tells of their meetings with friends and local Vietnamese as well as places they visit, as seen from an American viewpoint.
- Alternative Title
- Notebooks from Vietnam
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Experimental films.
- Documentary films.
- Note
- When Lynne Sachs and her sister Dana, a journalist living in Vietnam, travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history. Which Way Is East is a collection of tourism, city life, culture clash, and historic inquiry. It demonstrates compassion, acute observational skills, an understanding of history's scope, and a critical ability to discern what's missing from the textbooks and TV news. The film starts as a road trip and flowers into a political discourse. It combines Vietnamese parables, history and memories of the people the sisters met, as well as their own childhood memories of the war on TV. To Americans for whom "Vietnam" ended in 1975, Which Way Is East is a reminder that Vietnam is a country, not a war.
- Credits (note)
- Director, Lynne Sachs.
- Title
- Which way is east [motion picture] : notebooks from Vietnam / a film by Lynne Sachs, in collaboration with Dana Sachs.
- Imprint
- San Francisco, Calif. : Canyon Cinema, 1994.
- Credits
- Director, Lynne Sachs.
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- Added Author
- Sachs, Lynne.Sachs, Dana.
- Branch Call Number
- M16 4531 W