Film Screening & Talk with Trinh T. Minh-ha

Centre A and The Cinematheque, with support from SFU David Lam Centre and SFU Department of Humanities, welcome renowned Vietnamese-born artist, writer, and scholar Trinh T. Minh-ha for a special two-night program of her acclaimed film work. Subjective, self-reflexive, and intellectual, infused with feminism and anti-colonialism, and offering a dizzying array of sights and sounds, the award-winning “anti-anthropological” films of Trinh represent a startling reinvention of the documentary form. Two of these intoxicating nonfiction works — Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) and Forgetting Vietnam (2015) — will screen at The Cinematheque, with Prof. Trinh on hand to introduce and discuss the latter, receiving its Vancouver premiere. THURSDAY: Screening of the classic film Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) FRIDAY: Vancouver premiere of Forgetting Vietnam (2015), followed by a talk and Q&A with Prof. Trinh T. Minh-ha, moderated by Prof. Helen Leung (SFU) Regular ticket prices are in effect. Membership in the Cinematheque or Centre A will be accepted for this event. Trinh T. Minh-ha is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, composer, and scholar whose films have been given over fifty retrospectives internationally. She has lectured worldwide on film, art, feminism, and cultural politics. She is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Image courtesy of Women Make Movies, http://www.wmm.com/