The whistleblower of My Lai / Clarity Films presents ; a Connie Field film ; produced by Connie Field & Gregory Scharpen ; directed by Connie Field.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Field, Connie, film producer, film director, director of photography.

Scharpen, Gregory, film producer, editor of moving image work.

Berger, Jonathan, 1954- composer.

Chessman, Harriet Scott, librettist.

Eckert, Rinde, performer.

Vō, Vân-Ánh Vanessa, performer.

Kronos Quartet, performer.

Clarity Films (Firm), production company, distributor.

Language:

English

Hebrew

Vietnamese

Subjects (All):

Berger, Jonathan, 1954- My Lai.

Berger, Jonathan.

Thompson, Hugh, 1943-2006.

Thompson, Hugh.

My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Atrocities.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Atrocities.

Vietnam--History--1945-1975.

Vietnam.

History.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (1 hr., 4 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Clarity Films, [2018]

Language Note:

In English ; song sung in English, with short sung introduction in Vietnamese, includes a sung Sephardic hymn fragment ; closed captioning available.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Hugh Thompson was more than a whistleblower. The 24 year old major was a hero to those he saved when he landed his Army helicopter to intervene at the site where US soldiers were murdering Vietnamese civilians. Fifty years later a group of artists collaborate on a chamber opera exploring Thompson during his final hours as he reckons with his life in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre. Archival images frame the rehearsals of the Kronos Quartet, composer Jonathan Berger, librettist Harriet Scott Chessman, tenor Rinde Eckert and instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vo.

Credits:

Edited by Gregory Scharpen ; camera, Connie Field ; music performed by Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert and Vân-Ánh Võ.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Distributed by Clarity Films.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 02, 2021).

Publisher Number:

cl-mylai Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.