Afterimage: Trinh T. Minh-ha

September 14-17, 2016

Internationally renowned filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha presents two of her films (including her latest, Forgetting Vietnam) and discusses them with Shannon Jackson and Akira Mizuta Lippit.

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Forgetting Vietnam
Forgetting Vietnam
Surname Viet Given Name Nam

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Forgetting Vietnam
- Thursday, September 15 7 PM
- Saturday, September 17 8 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha
United States, 2015
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Trinh T. Minh-ha and Akira Mizuta Lippit in conversation.
Trinh T. Minh-ha’s eloquent portrait of Vietnam, spliced between Hi-8 video footage from 1995 and HD in 2012, asks, "Who remembers, and who conceals?"
Surname Viet Given Name Nam
- Wednesday, September 14 7 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha
United States, 1989
BAMPFA Preservation Print

Trinh T. Minh-ha and Shannon Jackson in conversation.
The history of modern Vietnam and the struggles of its women provide the foundation for this revelatory experimental documentary. “Keenly intelligent, sensuously multilayered” (Stuart Klawans, The Nation).

Afterimage: Trinh T. Minh-ha

Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation

September 14-17, 2016

Vietnamese-born Trinh T. Minh-ha is an internationally renowned writer, composer, and filmmaker. Her most recent film, Forgetting Vietnam, both reflects on Vietnam’s geography, history, legends, and myths, and serves as an archeology of changing visual technologies. Her earlier postcolonial classic, also an exploration of Vietnam, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, includes interviews that are translated multiple times and reenacted, presenting the experiences of both Vietnam residents and immigrants. Like much of her work, both films deeply engage with memory, conflict, culture, and women’s experiences, and with issues of representation and documentation. Trinh’s poetic approach is emotional and layered; as Gabriel Gabrenya notes, “Seldom do modern films venture north, toward the heart or, less likely, into the head. This is dangerous, unchartered territory, not found on the maps of most moviemakers.” While he was...

We are delighted that Trinh will be in person at all three screenings and in conversation with Shannon Jackson on September 14 and Akira Mizuta Lippit on September 15 and 17. Both Trinh and Jackson are on the faculty at UC Berkeley. Trinh is professor of gender and women’s studies and of rhetoric. Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair, as well as professor of rhetoric and of theater, dance and performance studies. Jackson is also UC Berkeley’s first associate vice chancellor of arts and design. Akira Mizuta Lippit is vice dean of faculty in the School of Cinematic Arts and professor in the division of cinema and media studies at USC.

Kathy Geritz, Film Curator

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Our programs with Trinh T. Minh-ha are presented as part of Afterimage: Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation, made possible by generous funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association®.