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Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, multimedia artist, writer, composer, and postcolonial feminist theorist. Her award-winning films—including Night Passage, The Fourth Dimension, A Tale of Love, Shoot for the Contents, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Naked Spaces – Living Is Round, and Reassemblage—have been shown at film festivals and in museums around the world. She is the author of numerous books, including Elsewhere, Within Here; Cinema Interval; Framer Framed; When the Moon Waxes Red; and Woman, Native, Other. She is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
I. Prelude
Lotus Eye (Reading Miyazawa Kenji and Making
Night Passage) 3
II. Script
Night Passage (Film Script) 21
III. Conversations
A Sound Print in the Human Archive
with Sidsel Nelund 65
The Depth of Time
with Alison Rowleyo 89
What's Eons New?
with Rosa Reitsamer 121
The Politics of Forms and Forces
with Eva Hohenberger 141
IV. Installation
L'Autre marche (The Other Walk) 171
L'Entre-musée: The World, with Each Step
with Elvan Zabunyan 183
Illustrations, Filmography, and Distribution 205
Index 207
About the author
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, multimedia artist, writer, composer, and postcolonial feminist theorist. Her award-winning films—including Night Passage, The Fourth Dimension, A Tale of Love, Shoot for the Contents, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Naked Spaces – Living Is Round, and Reassemblage—have been shown at film festivals and in museums around the world. She is the author of numerous books, including Elsewhere, Within Here; Cinema Interval; Framer Framed; When the Moon Waxes Red; and Woman, Native, Other. She is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
Summary
The world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha discusses the potentials and impact of new technology on cinema culture and explores its effects on creative practice.
