Reassamblage de Trinh T. Minh Ha

Esta pieza documental de la vida en Senegal, nos trae una visión de una directora feminista, la cual como su nombre lo dice es un rompecabezas, desarmado cuyo objetivo es desligarse de todos los estereotipos del documental etnográfico per se.
Existe además de una exaltación del lado femenino, una poética clara y un acercamiento muy critico. Aquí se aprecia claramente una cámara operada por una mujer, la cual hace que a pesar de estar retratando a mujeres desnudas, estas estén en una posición cómoda.
Probablemente este documental no tendría el mismo impacto si fuese editando en orden, el sonido así como la narración se corta y se repite por instantes, así como también lo hacen las imágenes, quizás este punto critico hacia el clásico documental etnográfico es el mayor pilar que sostiene a esta obra.




Para ejemplificar este tipo de tratamiento sobre el cuerpo de la mujer escogí 3 fotógrafas que admiro, y que tienen otro tipo de acercamiento a la feminidad. Diferente al tratamiento común del cuerpo que existe.

Ruth Bernhard























Joyce Tenneson

























Edna Bullock






















Trinh T. Minh-ha
Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952) is a filmmaker, writer, academic and composer. She is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focuses 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.
Trinh T. Minh-ha was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1952. She was brought up in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She studied piano and music composition at the National Conservatory of Music and Theater in Saigon. Trinh T. Minh-ha immigrated to the United States in 1970. Trinh studied music composition, ethnomusicology, and French literature at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she received her M.F.A.s and Ph.D. degree. Trinh T. Minh-ha currently teaches in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley since 1994 and in the Department of Rhetoric[3] since 1997. She has also taught at Harvard, Smith, Cornell, San Francisco State University, the University of Illinois, Ochanomizu University in Japan and the National Conservatory of Music in Senegal. She is trained as a musical composer.

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