Alison Nguyen United States, 1986
history as hypnosis (installation version), 2023
3-channel Video Projections, Color, Stereo Sound, Aluminum Panels, Orange Scrim, Metal Seating, Colored Gels
Duration: 25 minutes
Duration: 25 minutes
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP
history as hypnosis (Excerpt - Beginning Car Wash Scene): https://vimeo.com/852807925?fl=pl&fe=sh history as hypnosis (Excerpt - Desert Road to City): https://vimeo.com/852819894?fl=pl&fe=sh -- A speculative road film that unfolds through cultural memory...
history as hypnosis (Excerpt - Beginning Car Wash Scene):
https://vimeo.com/852807925?fl=pl&fe=sh
history as hypnosis (Excerpt - Desert Road to City):
https://vimeo.com/852819894?fl=pl&fe=sh
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A speculative road film that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, history as hypnosis follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they journey through an uncanny desert landscape to a nearby metropolis. In director Alison Nguyen’s hands, these figures without memory or history become a cinematic use case for themes of alienation, assimilation, and refusal. Freely combining genre, fact, and fiction, the film draws on its Southern California locations’ postmodern glass facades, mimetic architecture, and roadside infrastructure—markers of car culture’s entanglement with American expansionism and cinema history alike—to uncover the more ineffable links between collective consciousness and the Cold War military-industrial complex.
— Sophie Cavuloucos, Assistant Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art
Director & Writer: Alison Nguyen
Executive Producers: Mustafa Rony Zeno & D.S. Chun
Production Company: Rug and Vase
Director of Photography: Sebastian Mylnarski
Additional Photography: Mustafa Rony Zeno
Editor: Alison Nguyen
Production Designer: Heather Yancey
Sound Designer: Jon Flores
Score: Scott Kiernan
Hair and Makeup: Caroline Mills and Jeong-Hwa Fonkalsrud
Wardrobe Designer: Alison Nguyen
Producer: Mustafa Rony Zeno
Co-Producers: D.S. Chun and Zans Brady Krohn
Casting Director: Zans Brady Krohn
Vocal Sound Designer and Recordist: A.M. DeVito
Colorist: Kevin Ratigan
Color services provided by: Nice Shoes
Graphic Artist: Wes Adams
Post-Production Assistant: Luke Grenier
CAST
A: Alison Nguyen
B: Andrea Clinton
C: Moriah Sittner
Programmer: Julian Jackson
SUPPORTING CAST
Hair Dresser: Eliot
Shopkeeper - Electronics Store : Romeo Sanchez
Cashier - Gas Station: Liz Rossi
Actress #1: Anastasiia Bannikova (Stasia)
Actress #2: Lauren J. Bell
Karaoke Singer: Kakra Nunoo-Brown
Story Guy: Jacob Gorchov
Dead Man: Scott Kiernan
X: Conor Dowdle, Adam Milner
https://vimeo.com/852807925?fl=pl&fe=sh
history as hypnosis (Excerpt - Desert Road to City):
https://vimeo.com/852819894?fl=pl&fe=sh
--
A speculative road film that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, history as hypnosis follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they journey through an uncanny desert landscape to a nearby metropolis. In director Alison Nguyen’s hands, these figures without memory or history become a cinematic use case for themes of alienation, assimilation, and refusal. Freely combining genre, fact, and fiction, the film draws on its Southern California locations’ postmodern glass facades, mimetic architecture, and roadside infrastructure—markers of car culture’s entanglement with American expansionism and cinema history alike—to uncover the more ineffable links between collective consciousness and the Cold War military-industrial complex.
— Sophie Cavuloucos, Assistant Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art
Director & Writer: Alison Nguyen
Executive Producers: Mustafa Rony Zeno & D.S. Chun
Production Company: Rug and Vase
Director of Photography: Sebastian Mylnarski
Additional Photography: Mustafa Rony Zeno
Editor: Alison Nguyen
Production Designer: Heather Yancey
Sound Designer: Jon Flores
Score: Scott Kiernan
Hair and Makeup: Caroline Mills and Jeong-Hwa Fonkalsrud
Wardrobe Designer: Alison Nguyen
Producer: Mustafa Rony Zeno
Co-Producers: D.S. Chun and Zans Brady Krohn
Casting Director: Zans Brady Krohn
Vocal Sound Designer and Recordist: A.M. DeVito
Colorist: Kevin Ratigan
Color services provided by: Nice Shoes
Graphic Artist: Wes Adams
Post-Production Assistant: Luke Grenier
CAST
A: Alison Nguyen
B: Andrea Clinton
C: Moriah Sittner
Programmer: Julian Jackson
SUPPORTING CAST
Hair Dresser: Eliot
Shopkeeper - Electronics Store : Romeo Sanchez
Cashier - Gas Station: Liz Rossi
Actress #1: Anastasiia Bannikova (Stasia)
Actress #2: Lauren J. Bell
Karaoke Singer: Kakra Nunoo-Brown
Story Guy: Jacob Gorchov
Dead Man: Scott Kiernan
X: Conor Dowdle, Adam Milner
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