Trinh T. Minh-ha

Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, composer and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in the departments of Rhetoric and of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes numerous books, such as Traveling in the Dark (2023), The Twofold Commitment (2023), Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared (2016), D-Passage: The Digital Way (2013), Elsewhere, Within Here (2011); nine feature-length films including What About China? (2022), Night Passage 2004, The Fourth Dimension (2001), Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989), and Reassemblage (1982), which have been honored in numerous retrospectives around the world; several solo exhibitions, (Singapore 2020, Stuttgart 2022, Shanghai 2022-23) and large-scale collaborative installations, as in Manifesta 13, Marseille, France 2020, and the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris 2006-09. 

She has received many awards, including the New:Vision Award at CPH:DOX Film Festival in Copenhagen, 2022; the Wild Dreamer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Subversive Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014; the Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Caucus for Art, 2012; and the 2006 Trailblazers Award at MIPDoc (International Documentary Film Event) in Cannes, France.