drawings and photograph by Jean-Paul Bourdier
Born
in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and composer.
Her works include:
Films
• Night Passage (98mins,
Digital, 2004) (fiction)
• The
Fourth Dimension (87 mins, Digital,
2001)
• A Tale of Love
(108 mins, 1995) (fiction)
• Shoot
for the Contents (102 mins, 1991)
•
Surname Viet Given Name Nam (108
mins, 1989)
• Naked Spaces -
Living is Round (135 mins, 1985)
•
Reassemblage (40
mins, 1982)
Books
•
The Digital
Film Event (Routledge 2005)
•
Cinema Interval (Routledge
1999)
• Drawn from African
Dwellings (in coll. with Jean-Paul
Bourdier, Indiana University Press 1996)
• Framer
Framed (Routledge 1992)
• When
the Moon Waxes Red. Representation,
gender and cultural politics (Routledge 1991)
• Out
There: Marginalisation in Contemporary Culture (Co-editor
with Cornel West, R. Ferguson & M. Gever. New York: New Museum
of Contemporary Art and M.I.T. Press, 1990)
•
Woman, Native, Other. Writing
postcoloniality and feminism (Indiana
Universty Press 1989)
• En
minuscules (book of poems, Edition Le
Meridien 1987)
• African Spaces -
Designs for Living in Upper Volta (in
coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Holmes & Meier 1985)
•
En art sans oeuvre,
International Book Publishers, Inc.
Installations
•
The Desert is Watching
(in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, 2003, Kyoto Art Biennale)
•
Nothing But Ways
(in coll. with L. M. Kirby, 1999, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco)
•L’
Autre marche (The Other Walk)
In collaboration wth Jean Paul Bourdier, Musée
du Quai Branly, Paris, France 9 Juin 2006 -2009
Music
•
Poems.
Composition for Percussion Ensemble.
Premiere by the Univ. of Illinois Percussion Ensemble, Denis
Wiziecki, Director. 09 April 1976.
•
Four Pieces
for Electronic Music. 1975 Performances
at the Univ. of Illinois.
The recipient of
several awards and grants (including the “Trailblaizers”
Award at MIPDOC, Cannes; the AFI National Independent Filmmaker
Maya Deren Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the
American Film Institute, The Japan Foundation, and the California
Arts Council), her films have been given thirty-six
retrospectives in the US, the UK,
Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, France, Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Japan and Hong Kong, and were exhibited at the
international contemporary art exhibition Documenta
11 (2002) in Germany. They have shown
widely in the States, in Canada, Senegal, Australia, and New
Zealand, as well as in Europe and Asia (including in Italy,
Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Japan, India, Taiwan, Jerusalem,.
Reassemblage
was exhibited at The New York Film Festival (1983) and has toured
the country with the Asian American Film Festival among other
festivals. Naked Spaces
received the Blue Ribbon Award
for Best Experimental Feature at the American Int'l. Film Festival
and the Golden Athena Award
for Best Feature Documentary at the Athens International Film
Festival in 1986; it toured nationally and internationally with
the 1987 Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Surname
Viet Given Name Nam has received the
Merit Award from
the Bombay International Film Festival, the Film
as Art Award from the Society for the
Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SF Museum of Modern Art) and
the Blue Ribbon Award at the American Film and Video Festival.
Shoot for the Contents won
the Jury's Best Cinematography Award
at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival and the Best
Feature Documentary Award at the Athens
International Film Festival, and toured internationally with the
1993 Biennale of the Whitney Museum. A
Tale of Love, has shown
internationally in over twenty-four film festivals, including
Berlin and Toronto. The Fourth Dimension (Locarno,
Viennale, Edinburg, London) and Night Passage
continue to exhibit widely (UK,
Austria, Spain, Japan, Korea, Shanghai).
Trinh Minh-ha has
traveled and lectured extensively—in the States, as well as
in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand—on film, art,
feminism, and cultural politics. She taught at the National
Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal (1977-80); at universities
such as Cornell, San Francisco State, Smith, and Harvard,
Ochanomizu (Tokyo); and is Professor of Women's Studies and
Rhetoric (Film) at the University of California, Berkeley.