What About China? is composed mainly of images shot in Hi8 by filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha in 1993 and 1994 and assembled in a striking montage. Minh films the Chinese countryside, and a series of voices take turns sharing a personal experience, an excerpt of a poem, a traditional song, resulting in a reflection on China and its transformation from yesterday to tomorrow. In the continuity of a cinematographic work of great intellectual vitality since her 1982 film Reassemblage, the multidisciplinary artist and theorist questions cinema, the ethnographic approach and the construction of history through a compelling essay, as cerebral as it is tender. A true study in cinema.
- Editorial Team
Presented in collaboration with the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC)
What About China?
- Country : United States, China
- Year : 2022
- V.O : English, Chinese
- Subtitles : English
- Duration : 135 MIN
- Cinematography : Trinh T. Minh-ha
- Editing : Trinh T. Minh-Ha
- Production : Jean-Paul Bourdier
- Music : Wu Wei
- Music : Renchang Fu
- Music : Martin Lillich
- Music : Ulrich Moritz
- Music : Wei Wang
- Music : Haina Jin
- Sound Design : Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Reassemblage (1982)
Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)
A Tale of Love (1996)
The Fourth Dimension (2001)
Forgetting Vietnam (2016)
CPH:DOX | World Premiere, New:Vision Award
San Francisco International Film Festival | Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award
Jean Rouch Film Festival | Bartók Award
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