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The twofold commitment
- Title
- The twofold commitment / Trinh T. Minh-ha.
- Author
- Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Primary Information, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- 201 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- The Twofold Commitment is an artist book by filmmaker, writer, and theorist, Trinh T. Minh-ha. While contextualizing the wider scope of her filmmaking practice, this publication centers on Trinh's feature film Forgetting Vietnam (2015), which takes up one of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam: a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam's curving, S-shaped coastline. Commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the film draws inspiration from ancient legend to stage an ongoing, contemporary conversation between land and water, creating a third space for historical and cultural re-memory. The book features the film's lyrical script, along with rhythmically distributed cinematic stills. Expanding on this central focus is a series of conversations between Trinh and film and sound scholars Patricia Alvarez Astacio and Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa; Erika Balsom; Lucie Kim-Chi Mercier; Domitilla Olivieri; Stefan Östersjö; Irit Rogoff; and Xiaolu Guo. These conversations date from 2016 to 2022 and are accompanied by an index of key concepts in the artist's work.
- Subject
- Trinh, T. Minh-Ha 1952-
- Motion pictures > Production and direction
- Mythology, Vietnamese > In art
- Women motion picture producers and directors
- Motion picture producers and directors > Vietnam
- Artists' books > Specimens
- Artists' books
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Mythology, Vietnamese
- Motion pictures
- Vietnam
- Genre/Form
- Artists' books.
- Art.
- Specimens.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- I. Seen yet unseen : filmscript -- Forgetting Vietnam -- II. Say to unsay : conversations -- Nonbinary : the many twos / with Patricia Alvarez Astacio and Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa -- Reality is delicate / with Erika Balsom -- Wartime : the forces of remembering in forgetting / with Lucie Kim-Chi Mercier -- In the realm of silence / with Xiaolu Guo -- For the feminist viewer / with Irit Rogoff -- Soundscapes of multiplicity / with Stefan Östersjö -- In the spiral of time / with Domitilla Olivieri.
- Call Number
- MFL 23-4054
- ISBN
- 9781737797968
- 1737797968
- OCLC
- 1371244348
- Author
- Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), 1952- artist.
- Title
- The twofold commitment / Trinh T. Minh-ha.
- Publisher
- New York : Primary Information, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Valinsky, Rachel, editor.Lin, Dorothy, designer.Dubinsky, Allison, copy editor.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 23-4054