Short Film on Hmong Refugee Experience: Experience & Memory

A lovely short film by Kao Kalia Yang, writer, and John O’Brien, filmmaker. Kao, a Hmong refugee immigrant to the United States. She reflects specifically on the limits of experience and memory, place, and home. Is her homeland Laos, or the refugee camp where she was born? Or the place where she lives now?

Truly lovely. I hope to hear more from both of them, now that I’m slowly getting settled in the Twin Cities.

The Place Where We Were Born from John OBRIEN on Vimeo.