We’re thrilled to announce the first name from the guest artists and filmmakers who will be joining us in Odemira in 2024!
TRINH T. MINH-HA is a writer, theorist, composer and filmmaker whose practice is mainly positioned within the fields of feminist and postcolonial studies. Born in Hanoi, she emigrated to the US during the Vietnam War, where she studied music composition, ethnomusicology and French literature. While teaching in Dakar, Senegal, she created her first film, Reassemblage (1982), which documents the lives of women in rural Senegal in a manner that she famously described as “speaking nearby” rather than “speaking about” the subjects she portrays. She has consistently challenged the traditional documentary format and has been deconstructing normative ways of looking at and listening to different cultures, whilst being dedicated to questioning totalising systems of knowledge and categories of identity. She considers each work to exist as a “boundary event,” eluding labels such as documentary, fiction or experimental film, instead positioning her work between these designations. Alongside audiovisual works, she has published numerous essays and books on cinema, cultural politics, feminism and the arts. She is Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Doc’s Kingdom – Ways of Listening
International Seminar on Documentary Film
19-23 Nov 2024 | Odemira, Portugal
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