Framer Framed: Film Scripts and Interviews

by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Framer Framed brings together for the first time the scripts and detailed visuals of three of Trinh Minh-ha's provocative Reassemblage , Naked Spaces--Living is Round , and Surname Viet Given Name Nam .

Genres: Film

284 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 1992

About the author

Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952) is a filmmaker, writer, academic and composer. She is an independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focus on women's work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory and the arts. The seminars she offers focus on Third cinema, film theory and aesthetics, the voice in cinema, the autobiographical voice, critical theory and research, cultural politics and feminist theory.[1] She has been making films for over twenty years and may be best known for her first film Reassemblage, made in 1982. She has received several awards and grants, including the American Film Institute’s National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award, and Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. Her films have been the subject of twenty retrospectives.