“It all begins with two”: departure/return, earth/water, history/tourism… Starting from the ancient myth of Vietnam’s foundation – a battle between two dragons – and from the balance between earth and water that defines the country geographically, Trinh Minh-ha composes a palimpsest of words and images filmed in 1995 in Hi-8 video, then in HD in 2012. Words, superimposed, come and go like a graphic ballet that adds a layer to the archaeology visible in the landscape, a mix of ancient traditions and authoritarian attempts to eradicate them.
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Forgetting VietNam Trailer | SGIFF 2016
IMAGINE TODAY - FEATURE FILMS Director: Trinh Minh-ha Producer(s): Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier Screenwriter(s): Trinh Minh-ha Synopsis: ...
FORGETTING VIETNAM Trailer- Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Feminist filmmaker film theorist and experimental artist Trinh T. Minh-ha one of the diaspora's most prominent voices in arts and activism returns with this ...
FORGETTING VIETNAM | Women Make Movies | Clip
Forgetting Vietnam A film by Trinh T. Minh-ha Produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier US/South Korea/Germany 2015 90 minutes DVD One of the myths surrounding ...
Trinh T. Minh-ha : Talk about Forgetting Vietnam (Musée des Beaux-Arts Montreal 18 Feb. 2017)
Organized by DHC/ART Foundation for the Contemporary Art and Feminist Media Studio of Concordia University.
[EIDF 2016] 베트남 잊기 (Forgetting Vietnam)
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