"It is always uneasy when one returns to one’s childhood home."
Truong Minh Quý's The Tree House is exclusively showing August 13 – September 12, 2020 on MUBI as part of the series Festival Focus: Locarno Film Festival.
I don’t remember when and where exactly, but I remember what I saw: a lone tiny house far away on a high steep mountain.
Time passes. Some images keep recurring, emerging out of the foggy mind in unexpected moments between daily activities. Going to the market for some trivial stuff and suddenly see again so vividly the face of an ancestor who had died before one was born.
As if the tiny house since then has been residing in my memory so quietly and so long that it turns out it’s me who is staying inside the house: inside of an inside of an inside.
