Á will participate in NEW PLATFORM Alternative ASIA with Ô Cách Cinema 2025,
a project curated by Vũ Đức Toàn:

“In the spring of 2023, right in the heart of Á Space, a tiny art space only a few dozen square meters in size, those people were determined to build a Cinema even smaller. The Cinema had nine orderly seats, tiered in three standard steps. Yet it regularly had to set out many extra seats, and even standing room was perfectly normal. What was the Cinema showing that drew such crowds? I did not hear much praise for the films themselves. But I saw and heard much praise for the Cinema itself, for the very fact of its happening, for the way they screened things together there. That was what made the Cinema truly alive.

The Cinema did not make it to that summer. As planned, it had to be dismantled when Á’s project program ended. I then watched those same people take it down with a resolve even more relentless than the resolve with which they had built it.

Now we bring this Cinema here, modeled on an earlier one my friends created with their money, time, sweat, and affection. Open it and the films and video fragments drift ceaselessly, as if it were hardly possible to intervene at all. They drift horizontally and vertically; sometimes, even when the suitcase is closed, the images keep drifting through the mind without end. In turn, the suitcase that holds them will also drift from place to place whenever someone carries it along on some journey.”


In its 2025 version, the Cinema screens five single-channel video works by five Vietnamese artists and collectives, selected by curator Vũ Đức Toàn.

99 % Tetris Game | the cold war is over… almost
Lê Đình Chunh
Single-channel video, 16:9, color, stereo
Duration: 7’59”

99% Tetris Game | the cold war is over… almost,” an interactive video game work by Lê Đ.Chunh. Tetris, the iconic puzzle game where tetromino blocks (composed of 4 squares) fall from the “sky,” was created in 1984 by Soviet engineer Alexey Pajitnov. It became the very first video game exported from the Soviet Union—unexpectedly becoming a global phenomenon, especially after reaching American players through Nintendo’s Game Boy. Lê Đ.Chunh, too, grew up with memories of handheld gaming consoles and sibling rivalries over playtime. Borrowing the 1988 U.S. marketing slogan for Tetris—“The Cold War is over… almost”—the artist has created his own absurdist version of the game. In place of clean geometric blocks, he uses fragments from daily life: hoes, sickles, sandbags, cattle, plants, pots, rubber sandals, silhouettes of residents… all cut from photographs he captured around the stone walls of the old tea factory. Like in Tetris, the pieces fall into a fixed screen; the player can rotate or move them sideways, but because there’s no unifying geometry, they never quite align. There is no neat fit, no completed lines, and no score. The fragments simply pile up—off-kilter and unresolved—in a system of illogical self-cancellation.
The work gently links personal memory with broader historical shifts—from a transforming local landscape to the distant echoes of a crumbling world order—not to interrogate or conclude, but to propose a wry scenario: when pieces never fit, how long can the game go on—and for what reason?

Mid-Autumn night
Lê Xuân Tiến
Single-channel video, 16:9, color, stereo
Duration: 8’32”

2024, Hanoi Children’s Palace, Mid-Autumn festival, under the moonlight, Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Too many people at the balconies
Đặng Thuỳ Anh
Single-channel video, 16:9, color, stereo
Duration: 15’39”

Cardio
Nguyễn Đức Huy
Single-channel video, colour, stereo
Duration: 4’07”

The Blue Vases Chronicle
Phụ Lục
Single-channel video, colour, stereo
Duration: 7’49”

The story draws the whole process of “Phụ Lục | The Appendix” group when they attended Documenta 15 in Kassel, 2022.