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Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment
Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment
Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment
Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment
Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment
Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment
Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment
Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment
Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment

Trinh T. Minh-ha – The Twofold Commitment

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The Twofold Commitment is an artist book by filmmaker, writer, and theorist, Trinh T. Minh-ha. While contextualizing the wider scope of her filmmaking practice, this publication centers on Trinh’s feature film Forgetting Vietnam (2015), which takes up one of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam: a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam’s curving, S-shaped coastline. Commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the film draws inspiration from ancient legend to stage an ongoing, contemporary conversation between land and water, creating a third space for historical and cultural re-memory.

The book features the film’s lyrical script, along with rhythmically distributed cinematic stills. Expanding on this central focus is a series of conversations between Trinh and film and sound scholars Patricia Alvarez Astacio and Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa; Erika Balsom; Lucie Kim-Chi Mercier; Domitilla Olivieri; Stefan Östersjö; Irit Rogoff; and Xiaolu Guo. These conversations date from 2016 to 2022 and are accompanied by an index of key concepts in the artist’s work.

204 pages, 16.77 x 22.61 cm, paperback, Primary Information (New York).