If the Earth Could Speak
uring the Second Indochina War (1955–75), the United States droppedư ạo (2021), named in reference to a 1969 song by Trịnh Công Sơn about the bombardments at night. The film imagines a sentient UXO—portrayed in the production still above—that muses on its purpose and karma in the final moments before its controlled detonation. In the next issue, associate editor Ophelia Lai speaks to Tuan Andrew Nguyen about his films’ animist awakenings of scarred landscapes.
