Void’s was delighted to host Vietnamese film-maker Trinh T Minh-ha in 2008. Minh-ha is the recipient of several awards and grants including the “Trailblazers” Award at MIPDOC, Cannes; the AFI National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute, The Japan Foundation, and the California Arts Council.
Trinh T Minh-ha’s films have been given thirty-six retrospectives in the US, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan and Hong Kong, and were exhibited at the international contemporary art exhibition Documenta 11 (2002) in Germany. They have shown widely in the United States, Canada, Senegal, Australia, New Zealand, as well as in Europe and Asia.
The work Reassemblage was exhibited at The New York Film Festival (1983) and has toured the country with the Asian American Film Festival among other festivals. Naked Spaces received the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Experimental Feature at the American Int’l. Film Festival and the Golden Athena Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Athens International Film Festival in 1986; it toured nationally and internationally with the 1987 Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Surname Viet Given Name Nam has received the Merit Award from the Bombay International Film Festival, the Film as Art Award from the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SF Museum of Modern Art) and the Blue Ribbon Award at the American Film and Video Festival. Shoot for the Contents won the Jury’s Best Cinematography Award at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival and the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Athens International Film Festival, and toured internationally with the 1993 Biennale of the Whitney Museum. A Tale of Love, has shown internationally in over twenty-four film festivals, including Berlin and Toronto.
The Fourth Dimension (Locarno, Viennale, Edinburgh, London) and Night Passage continue to exhibit widely (UK, Austria, Spain, Japan, Korea, Shanghai).
The latter two films was screened as part of her exhibition at Void.
Biography
Trinh Minh-ha has traveled and lectured extensively in the States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand on film, art, feminism, and cultural politics. She taught at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal (1977-80); at universities such as Cornell, San Francisco State, Smith, and Harvard, Ochanomizu (Tokyo); and is Professor of Women’s Studies and Rhetoric (Film) at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Acknowledgements
Void Gallery is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Derry City Council.
