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Trinh T. Minh-ha’s approach to film has addressed a wide field of discussions—reaching from the ethics of representation in ethnographic film, to aspects of migration, debates on global socio-political developments, and different layers of feminist…

NTU CCA Singapore is proud to have co-commissioned the winning film ’What about China’ for the solo show “Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films” (October 2020 - February 2021), our last exhibition in Block 43. Shot in southern and eastern China in the early 1990s,…

Presented by Assistant Professor Dr. Ella Raidel, School of Art, Design, and Media, and Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU. Venue: NTU CCA Singapore Screening Room, 38 Malan Road, #01-06, Gillman Barracks. Date: 21 April 2023,…

Special attention in the accompanying film programme has been given to Trinh T. Thi Min-ha’s approach of the withdrawal from the usual pattern of the documentary with regard to authenticity, representation, observation, or the creation of sentiments…

Special attention in the accompanying film programme has been given to Trinh’s approach of the withdrawal from the usual pattern of the documentary with regard to authenticity, representation, observation, or the creation of sentiments in favor of…

1 – 14 November 2020 the time is now. (I+II), Heidrun Holzfeind, 2019 Colour, sound, 48 min Rating: PG Holzfeind is interested in architectural and social utopias that create an alternative living. She documents the shamanistic rituals of the…

The Human Pyramid, Jean Rouch, 1961 DCP, colour, sound, 93 min Rating: NC16 (This film contains mature content) At the Lycée Français of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Rouch worked with students there who willingly enacted a story about the arrival of a new…

Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989 16mm film transferred to digital, colour, sound, 108 min Rating: PG13 (This film contains some disturbing scenes from the archival footage of the Vietnam War) This film is Trinh’s complex deep dive…

Reassemblage, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982 16mm film transferred to digital, colour, sound, 40 min Rating: PG13 (This film contains some nudity) With her remarkable and widely discussed first film, Trinh brings the conventions of the documentary to our…

Nervous Translation, Shireen Seno, 2018 Colour, sound, 90 min Rating: PG This film follows the inner voice and play of an eight-year-old girl who cooks perfect miniature dishes, mimicking the world of adults. The perception of the child is translated…