Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex - For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards.

Filmed on location in Vietnam’s Indochina Sea this remarkable 13-minute video depicts a number of young men struggling to propel cyclos across the rock-strewn sandy ocean bottom. Working in teams they pull push and pedal the passengerless vehicles; and periodically they must rush up to the surface for air or risk drowning. The water grows deeper; the boulders get larger; the trip to the surface takes longer; and the task is increasingly arduous. Finally the drivers abandon their cyclos and swim together toward an underwater “city” composed of tents made from white netting strung between boulders a metaphorical memorial for the many Vietnamese boat people drowned in the aftermath of the war.