Do Vietnamese people walk differently? This is the absurd question that triggered The Way We Walk, a film made in Saigon and across the Mekong region. Participants subject themselves to interviews while walking on a treadmill, offering preposterous theories and anecdotes that demonstrate their love for the nation while discussing the implications of regional politics. Nicolas Cilins worked with co-conspirator Dustin Đức Thịnh Dương to explore the distance between the fantasy of the motherland and the realities of a developing nation. The treadmill serves as a 'Trojan horse' to question policies of censorship, functioning as a recording device for individual confidences in a country where citizens often shy away from explicit critical speech. Presented as a two-screen video installation, the work questions our perception of the political status quo and the gaze we cast upon cultural identity.