The Tree House (2019) by Truong Minh Quý

Truong Minh Quý’s ‘The Tree House’ narrates the story of a man living on Mars in the year 2045. He examines footage brought back from his encounters with an indigenous community in the jungles of Vietnam. As he experiments, his thoughts drift from matters of identity, aesthetics, and the politics of imagemaking, to ritual burial practices, to the seen and unseen forces that shape cultures. Combining elements of science fiction and ethnography, The Tree House is a powerful exploration of how time and environment relate to our understanding of a home.