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Trinh T. Min-ha: Forgetting Vietnam
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Trinh T. Minh-ha: Forgetting Vietnam
Trinh T. Minh-ha: Forgetting Vietnam
“Trinh challenges her audiences with each work, constantly shifting how she critically engages with the form and spirit of cinema.” – San Francisco Cinematheque
Los Angeles Premiere
With exquisitely composed images and a shimmering sound-track, Trinh T. Minh-ha revisits her native Vietnam forty years after the war — a home lost in multiple layers of remembrance and oblivion. Mythologically born of a fragile equilibrium between land and water, the country once called đất nứớc vạn xuân — the land of 10,000 springs — is now faced with a no less precarious balancing act. Is she doomed to become a Benjaminian image, in touristic snapshots, in diasporic nostalgia? Or is she reborn in a to-and-fro between the traditions linked to the solid earth, and the liquid changes of rapid globalization?
In person: Trinh T. Minh-ha
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud and supported, in part, by the Ostrovsky Family Fund.
Associated Images:
| Date/Time | G | M/ST | CA |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAT 9/24 8:30 pm | $11 | $8 | $6 |
G - General Audience
M - REDCAT Members
ST - Students
CA - CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff
