Masterclass: Trinh T. Minh-ha

synopsis

The Sap that Matters

Power relations lay at the core of normative representations. In the tuning in with the forces of a life event, one can say that form is attained only to address the formless. Reality in its social and historical dimension is not a material for artistic reflection or political commitment; it is what powerfully draws one to cinema and yet cannot be captured without dissolving itself in its fragile essence when one approaches it without subtlety and vulnerability.

With examples excerpted from several of my films the master class will cover the political, ethical, artistic and spiritual dimensions in filmmaking, focusing for example on the politics of form and forces, and of non-binary creative practices and everyday resistance.

biography

Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and composer, and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes nine feature-length films, which have been honored with over seventy retrospectives around the world, large-scale installations and numerous books, including Elsewhere, Within Here (2011).