CURRENT PRESENTS: 

‘HOW TO BUILD A FOREST’ by JENN TRAN 

Centering her perspective from Agnes Denes' land artwork 'A Forest For Australia' (1998), a scientist from a distant future returns to Earth to understand how her colony might build its first forest. What begins as a scientific mission becomes a meditation on place, memory and the weight of progress.

director, animator, producer: Jenn Tran
writers: Kelly Bartholomeusz, Jenn Tran
sound designer, composer: Mara Schwerdferger
camera operator, cinematographer: Veronica Charmont
voice over: Jessica Douglas-Henry
16mm processing & scanning: nanolab, MEMORY Lab, Jordan James Kaye


Jenn Tran is a Vietnamese-Australian multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of moving image, textile and animation in Melbourne/Naarm.
She primarily practises in experimental animation and documentary cine-essays, intertwining alternative dialogues and animated realms. Her work have been shown at Sydney Film Festival, SEVENTH Gallery & Pari Ari. Her art residencies have included Center for Projection Art & Air Hue (Vietnam). Jenn is also a volunteer radio presenter on Triple R and is a member of Artist Film Workshop– an analog film lab in Brunswick East.