local color

Overview

Local Color documents the daily life of people who live, work, visit and play in Hanoi. Once the central city of America’s most elusive enemy during the Cold War, the film asks what is to become of the red that once brought the western world to its knees? Where is it fading? What colors replace it? Who will be responsible moving forward? Local Color is an observational documentary that investigates the limits of observational documentary. Starting with a relic of the Vietnam War, Local Color expands to explore how images, propaganda and a local scene is created. Local Color is a film about labor and leisure. It is about the past, the present and the future and it is a film about a city and its people. Local Color a film about Hanoi, Vietnam.