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Documentaries

amaurosis

28m

Directed by Tran T. Kim-Trang • 2002 • United States

AMAUROSIS is an experimental documentary about Dat Nguyen, a blind guitarist living in Little Saigon in Orange County, California. Dat Nguyen was a “triple outcast”: blind, Amerasian, and an impoverished orphan. The video unfolds through layers of dialogue with Dat Nguyen about his experiences as a new immigrant and young adult in America.

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