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'''Trinh T. Minh-ha''' is a [[filmmaker]], [[writer]], [[academic]] and [[composer]]. <br /><br /> |
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==Biography== |
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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. Minha 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 M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Trinh T. Minha currently teaches in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at the University of Berkley since 1994 and in the Department of Rhetoric since 1997. She has also taught at Harvard, Smith, Cornell, San Francisco State University, the University of Ilinois, Ochanomizu University in Japan and the National Conservatory of Music in Senegal. She is trained as a musical composer, she received her two Masters and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.<br /> |
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Trinh T. Minh-ha 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.<ref>[http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/trinh_t_minhha.html]</ref> |
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}}'''Saltwood''' is a [[village]] and [[civil parish]]<ref>[http://www.saltwoodpc.kentparishes.gov.uk/default.cfm Saltwood Parish Council]</ref> in the [[Shepway]] District of [[Kent]], [[England]]. Within the parish are two other settlements: [[Pedlinge]] and [[Sandling]]; both being small hamlets. |
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==History== |
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She has been making films for over twenty years and may be best known for her first film Reassemblage, made in [[1982]]. Her more recent film Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (1989), examines "identity and culture through the struggle of Vietnamese women," and has received much attention, including winning the [[Blue Ribbon Awards|Blue Ribbon Award]] at the American Film and Video festival. [http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1993-12/print_version/trinh.htm] |
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Saltwood is located immediately to the north of [[Hythe, Kent|Hythe]] on the high land looking over the [[Romney Marsh]]. It is served by |
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====Reassemblage (40 mins, 1982)==== |
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Reassemblage is Trinh T. Minha's first film. It was filmed in Senegal and released in 1982. This film was part of her three year worth of ethnographic field research in West Africa through the Research Expedition Program of the University of California, Berkeley. Trinh intends "to speak about/Just speak near by." unlike usual ethnographic documentary film. The film is a montage of fleeting images from Senegal and includes no narration, there are occasional statements by Trinh. None of the small narrations made by her seems to assign meaning to the second-long scenes. There is sometimes music, sometimes silence, sometimes Trinh views a movie, refusing to make the film "about" a "culture". It points to the viewers expectation and the need for the assignment of meaning. The audience is left with a sense of disorientation.<ref>http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/trinh_t_minhha.html</ref><br /> |
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====Naked Spaces - Living is Round (135 mins, 1985)==== |
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In Naked Spaces: Living Is Round, Trinh T. Minh-ha elaborates on Reassemblage. She writes in her film on the themes of postcolonial identification and the geopolitical apparatus of disempowerment in Reassemblage to create a ethnographic essay-film on identity, the impossibility of translation, and space as a form of cultural representation.<ref>http://www.filmref.com/notes/archives/2007/10/index.html</ref> |
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Trinh's unique presentation of images serves as a language for the abstract, so often exoticized representation of African Culture in Western countries. She reframes the images in order to create the figurative filter of a usurped privileged gaze. Her montage of images point to the entertainment economy of the exoticized images which are exploited by the international community as justification for continued neocolonialism. Trinh's reframed images are a struggle to resist the mystification and exoticization of African life. Her "unconscious" process of interpretation as explanation in composing these images are against reinforcing prescribed assumptions and perpetuation of stereotypes, which is announced in the opening statement, "Not descriptive, not informative, not interesting."<ref>Minha, Trinh. ''Framer Framed''. New York: Routledge, 1992</ref> |
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====Surname Viet Given Name Nam (108 mins, 1989)==== |
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In Surname Viet Given Name Nam is not made in Vietnam. The film is composed of newsreel and archival footage as well as printed information. The film features interviews with five contemporary Vietnamese woman.<ref>http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE3DF153AF932A35757C0A96F948260</ref> Trinh T. Minha intentionally leads the viewer to think that the Vietnamese women being interviewed are really the people they portray.<ref>http://ls.berkeley.edu/art-hum/framing/old/chapter4/trinh.html</ref> After which it becomes clear that the interviews are re-enactments by immigrant-actors who live in the United States. Surname Viet Given Name Nam "allows the practice of interviews to enter into the play of the true and the false, and the real and the staged."<ref>Minha, Trinh. ''Framer Framed''. New York: Routledge, 1992. p 146</ref> Trinh T. Minha by showing both the staged and the "real" interviews demarcates the differences in the two which addresses the invisibility of the politics of interviews, and further relations of representations. The film asks the viewer to consider issues such as plural identity, the fictions inherent in documentary techniques, and film as translation. |
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==Saltwood Castle== |
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* Shoot for the Contents (102 mins, 1991) |
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[[Saltwood Castle]]<ref>[http://www.saltwoodcastle.com Saltwood Castle]</ref>, once a possession of the [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishops of Canterbury]],<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03299b.htm this article at Catholic Encyclopedia] quotes "The archbishop owned more than twenty manors in Kent alone, including the castle of Saltwood."</ref> is located here, having been assigned to them by a deed of 1026 (now in the [[British Museum]]) signed by such leading figures as [[King Canute]] and [[Earl Godwin]].<ref>See historical summary at [http://www.saltwoodcastle.com/Brief%20Historyof%20Saltwood.htm Saltwood Castle's history page]</ref>. More recently this castle (now privately owned) has been home to [[Kenneth Clark|Lord Clark of Saltwood]] and then his son [[Alan Clark|Alan Clark MP]]. It is located about a mile to the north of the [[Cinque Ports|cinque port]] of [[Hythe, Kent|Hythe]], although the parish boundaries of Saltwood come very much closer to Hythe town centre. |
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* A Tale of Love (108 mins, 1995) (fiction) |
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* The Fourth Dimension (87 mins, Digital, 2001) |
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* Night Passage (98mins, Digital, 2004) (fiction) |
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==Books== |
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* ''Un art sans oeuvre, ou, l'anonymat dans les arts contemporains'' (International Book Publishers, Inc., 1981) |
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* ''African Spaces - Designs for Living in Upper Volta'' (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Holmes & Meier 1985) |
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* ''En minuscules'' (book of poems, Edition Le Meridien 1987) |
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* ''Woman, Native, Other. Writing postcoloniality and feminism'' (Indiana University Press 1989) |
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* ''Out There: Marginalisation in Contemporary Culture'' (co-editor with Cornel West, R. Ferguson & M. Gever. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art and M.I.T. Press, 1990) |
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* ''When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, gender and cultural politics'' (Routledge 1991) |
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* ''Framer Framed'' (Routledge 1992) |
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* ''Drawn from African Dwellings'' (Indiana University Press 1996) with [[Jean-Paul Bourdier]] |
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* ''Cinema Interval'' (Routledge 1999) |
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* ''The Digital Film Event'' (Routledge 2005) |
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==Installations== |
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* The Desert is Watching (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, 2003, Kyoto Art Biennale) |
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* Nothing But Ways (in coll. with L Kirby, 1999, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco) |
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==Religious buildings== |
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==Music== |
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The [[Norman architecture|Norman]] parish church is dedicated to St Peter & St Paul)<ref>[http://www.saltwoodchurch.org Saltwood Parish Church]</ref>. There is also an [[Anglican chapel]] at Pedlinge. The residents of Sandling Park, the [[Estate (house)|estate]] and their estate employees traditionally worship at the latter, which is served by the [[parish]] [[priest]] ([[rector]]) of Saltwood. |
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* Poems. Composition for Percussion Ensemble. Premiere by the Univ. of Illinois Percussion Ensemble, Denis Wiziecki, Director. 09 April 1976. |
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* Four Pieces for Electronic Music. 1975 Performances at the Univ. of Illinois. |
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==Schools== |
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There is a large primary school,<ref>[http://www.saltwood.kent.sch.uk Saltwood Primary School]</ref>, and a major secondary high school (Brockhill Park Performing Arts College),<ref>[http://www.brockhill.kent.sch.uk Brockhill Park Performing Arts College]</ref> located in the parish. |
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*[http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/bourdier/trinh/TTMHBio.htm University of California, Berkeley homepage] |
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*[http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1993-12/print_version/trinh.htm 1993 Interview] |
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==Leisure== |
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[[Brockhill Country Park]] is located here. Saltwood also has a [[Cricket]] team<ref>[http://www.saltwoodcc.com Saltwood Cricket Club]</ref> which plays in the Kent Village League's Second Division, and has a ground and pavilion in the village at Kiln Corner, on the top of Tanners Hill. |
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*[http://humwww.ucsc.edu/CultStudies/PUBS/Inscriptions/vol_3-4/minh-ha.html Not like you/like you article] |
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*[http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1993-12/print_version/trinh.htm 1993 Interview] |
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Until [[1987]] Saltwood attracted visitors to a historical point of interest, the [[Saltwood Miniature Railway]], which was the oldest miniature railway in the world, still extant.<ref>See discussion at 7.25" Gauge Society homepage, or at the [http://www.angelfire.com/magic/saltwood Saltwood Miniature Railway] official website.</ref> However, in 1987 this railway closed and has since been broken up and its component parts sold. |
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Saltwood has two satellite [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]] communities; one is [[Pedlinge]] which has a handful of houses and a small [[Anglican]] Chapel and the other is [[Sandling]] which also has a tiny collection of homes, [[Sandling railway station]], and the house and of [[Sandling Park]]. The railway station serves the village of Saltwood, to which it is linked by a regular bus service. |
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==References== |
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==Further reading== |
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* ''Saltwood Castle''. Derby: English Life Publications, 1975. ISBN 0851010398 |
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Saltwood is a village and civil parish[1] in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Within the parish are two other settlements: Pedlinge and Sandling; both being small hamlets.
History
Geography
Saltwood is located immediately to the north of Hythe on the high land looking over the Romney Marsh. It is served by
Saltwood Castle
Saltwood Castle[2], once a possession of the Archbishops of Canterbury,[3] is located here, having been assigned to them by a deed of 1026 (now in the British Museum) signed by such leading figures as King Canute and Earl Godwin.[4]. More recently this castle (now privately owned) has been home to Lord Clark of Saltwood and then his son Alan Clark MP. It is located about a mile to the north of the cinque port of Hythe, although the parish boundaries of Saltwood come very much closer to Hythe town centre.
Religious buildings
The Norman parish church is dedicated to St Peter & St Paul)[5]. There is also an Anglican chapel at Pedlinge. The residents of Sandling Park, the estate and their estate employees traditionally worship at the latter, which is served by the parish priest (rector) of Saltwood.
Schools
There is a large primary school,[6], and a major secondary high school (Brockhill Park Performing Arts College),[7] located in the parish.
Leisure
Brockhill Country Park is located here. Saltwood also has a Cricket team[8] which plays in the Kent Village League's Second Division, and has a ground and pavilion in the village at Kiln Corner, on the top of Tanners Hill.
Until 1987 Saltwood attracted visitors to a historical point of interest, the Saltwood Miniature Railway, which was the oldest miniature railway in the world, still extant.[9] However, in 1987 this railway closed and has since been broken up and its component parts sold.
Saltwood has two satellite hamlet communities; one is Pedlinge which has a handful of houses and a small Anglican Chapel and the other is Sandling which also has a tiny collection of homes, Sandling railway station, and the house and of Sandling Park. The railway station serves the village of Saltwood, to which it is linked by a regular bus service.
References
- ^ Saltwood Parish Council
- ^ Saltwood Castle
- ^ this article at Catholic Encyclopedia quotes "The archbishop owned more than twenty manors in Kent alone, including the castle of Saltwood."
- ^ See historical summary at Saltwood Castle's history page
- ^ Saltwood Parish Church
- ^ Saltwood Primary School
- ^ Brockhill Park Performing Arts College
- ^ Saltwood Cricket Club
- ^ See discussion at 7.25" Gauge Society homepage, or at the Saltwood Miniature Railway official website.
Further reading
- Saltwood Castle. Derby: English Life Publications, 1975. ISBN 0851010398
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