Reassemblage

Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Trinh T. Minh-ha is a theorist, an author, a composer and a filmmaker. She grew up in Vietnam and went to the US to study in 1970. Since 1982, she has been making films that are multi-voiced reflections about representation, power relations and hybrid identities – in the US, West Africa, Vietnam, Japan and China.

Country: USA

Year: 1982

Synopsis: "I do not intend to speak about. Just speak nearby", Trinh T. Minh-ha says at the beginning of the 16mm film REASSEMBLAGE in her commentary. Filming in Senegal, the director distills sounds and images from the everyday life of villagers and resists the ethnological need to explain the "other" by resorting to explicit attributions. The film is a critique of the ethnological viewpoint and documentary authority. Trinh also questions her position as a filmmaker as well as pointing out the impossibility of finding a neutral and objective narrative voice.

Language: English

Tags: Documentary, Experimental film, Documentary