Trinh T. Minh-ha Lecture

Trinh T. Minh-ha, What About China?, film still, 2022. Courtesy of the artist

Join us for a lecture by artist Trinh T. Minh-ha followed by an audience Q & A. 

Doors open at 5:45 p.m. Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Explore the Visiting Artists Program homepage for visitor information, recordings of past events, and more.

Trinh T. Minh-ha is a world-renowned filmmaker, writer, composer, and a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes nine feature-length films: What About China? (2021); Forgetting Vietnam (2016); Night Passage (2004); The Fourth Dimension (2001); A Tale of Love (1996); Shoot for the Contents (1991); Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989); Naked Spaces (1985); and Reassemblage (1982). Her work has been honored in 69 retrospectives around the world and several large-scale multimedia installations include In Transit (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020); L’Autre marche (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris 2006–2009); Old Land New Waters (3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China 2008, Okinawa Museum of Fine Arts 2007); and The Desert is Watching (Kyoto Biennial, 2003). Numerous publications include Lovecidal: Walking with The Disappeared (2016); D-Passage: The Digital Way (2013); Elsewhere, Within Here (2011), Cinema Interval (1999); and Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989).
 
Her many awards include the 2014 Wild Dreamer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb; the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Caucus for Art; the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association; the 2006 Trailblazers Award at MIPDoc in Cannes, France; and the 1991 AFI National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award. 

Her latest film, What About China?, has received the 2022 New:Vision Award at CPH:DOX Film Festival in Copenhagen; The 2022 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival; the Prix Bartók at the 2022 Jean Rouch Film Festival; the Inspiration Award at Viet Film Fest; a Special Commendation at the BFI London Film Festival; and the Presidential Award at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Film Festival.

Co-presented by SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program and Conversations at the Edge; additional support provided by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series at the University of Michigan

This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. The auditorium is wheelchair accessible and hearing assisted devices are available. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access.

RELATED EVENTS

Wednesday, March 26, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Trinh T. Minh-ha: What About China?
Screening followed by a conversation with the artist
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.

Tickets are free for SAIC students, $5 for SAIC/AIC faculty and staff, and $13 for the general public. More information at saic.edu/cate.
 
Tuesday, May 6, 6:00 p.m.
Forgetting Vietnam
Gene Siskel Film Center