Make Agent Orange History

Addressing us bravely and candidly, a women who endured three abortions describes how her husband’s exposure to Agent Orange made her unable to conceive a child without severe defects.

Trinh shoots her in close-up, the tight framing intended not to shock or shame us into listening to her testimony but to give the visceral experience that she is addressing us directly.

“She told me her life story,” Trinh recalls, “and I wanted people to see the suffering, the pain, the sorrow that shows through the eyes. She holds back her tears, she doesn’t cry. I could tell she was crying inside; I could hear it in her voice. The only thing I could do was pull in on the eyes.”

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