Representative work by Trinh T. Minh-ha
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Trinh T. Minh-ha

b. 1952, Hanoi, North Vietnam · Vietnamese-American

Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, composer and theorist whose work has profoundly shaped experimental documentary and postcolonial critique. Her films question ethnographic authority, voice-over and the assumption that cameras can transparently represent other cultures.

Film; video; writing; installation

Major Works

  • 1982Reassemblage
  • 1985Naked Spaces—Living Is Round
  • 1989Surname Viet Given Name Nam
  • 1995A Tale of Love
  • 2001A Fourth Dimension
  • 2004Night Passage
  • 2015Forgetting Vietnam
  • 2022What About China?
  • 1991Shoot for the Contents
  • 2017Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared

Interviews & Writing

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