Framer Framed: Film Scripts and Interviews

by Minh-ha,Trinh T.

• ISBN13: 9780415905626
• ISBN10: 0415905621
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-08-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Framer Framedbrings together for the first time the scripts and detailed visuals of three of Trinh Minh-ha's provocative films:Reassemblage,Naked Spaces--Living is Round, andSurname Viet Given Name Nam. Offering a large selection of related interviews in which the award-winning filmmaker and theorist discusses the specifics of visual creativity and the politics of documentary practice,Framer Framedaddresses the more general questions of feminist, postcolonial, and postmodernist art and culture. Produced at the intersection of creative and critical practices, Trinh's films situate themselves in the intervals between poetry and politics, art and theory, fiction and documentary, and truth and fact. They resist the comfort of categorization, and engage the reader in a reflective process of seeing, hearing, and co-producing. This intricate tapestry of words and images weaves into its texture meditations on music, art andarchitecture; explorations of the materiality of film and the filmmaking process; reflections on West African cosmology and the significance of dwelling; and insights on the plight of women, of refugee, and of exile. The interviews selected contribute to politicizing the aesthetic experience; to challenging the habits of consumptive spectatorship; and to furthering the issues of representation as related to questions of gender, ethnicity, and cultural difference.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Filmography and Distribution	vii
Film Scripts
Naked Spaces---Living Is Round	3	(46)
Surname Viet Given Name Nam	49	(46)
Reassemblage	95	(16)
Interviews
Film As Translation: A Net with No Fisherman	111	(26)
Scott McDonald
From A Hybrid Place	137	(14)
Judith Mayne
Between Theory and Poetry	151	(10)
Pratibha Parmar
``Why A Fish Pond?'': Fiction At The Heart of Documentation	161	(20)
Laleen Jayamanne
Anne Rutherford
Questioning Truth and Fact	181	(10)
Harriet Hirshorn
``Who Is Speaking?'': Of Nation, Community and First Person Interviews	191	(22)
Isaac Julien
Laura Mulvey
Professional Censorship	213	(12)
Rob Stephenson
When I Project It Is Silent	225	(18)
Constance Penley
Andrew Ross
``Which Way to Political Cinema?'': A Conversation Piece	243	(26)
Laleen Jayamanne
Leslie Thornton
Select Bibliography	269