Films with: Trinh, T. Minh-Ha

Forgetting Viet Nam

Images unfold spatially as a dialogue between the two elements--land and water--that underlie the formation of the term "country." Carrying the histories of both visual technology and Vietnam's political reality, these images are also meant to feature the encounter between the ancient as related to the solid earth, and the new as related to the liquid changes in a time of rapid globalization. These elements combine to form what local inhabitants, immigrants and veterans remember of yesterday's stories to comment on today's events. Through the insights of these witnesses to one of America's most divisive wars, Vietnam's specter and her contributions to world history remain both present and all too easy to forget--Adapted from information on container.

DVD 12950

Place of rage

Prominent black women comment upon experiences of African American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. Includes historical footage of civil rights movement in the 1960s.

DVD 8487

Reassemblage

A complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Shows documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures.

DVD 12599

Surname Viêt, given name Nam

Trinh T. Minh-ha's film looks at the many faces of culture of Vietnamese women as seen in staged interviews, dance footage, and manipulated archival images. Also questions the politics of interviewing and the problems of translation in filmmaking.

DVD 12895