Thursday, December 5, 2013

Trinh T. Minh-ha Reassemblage video


This is what we started watching in class, please watch the entire film and read the essay afterwards as we will discuss these two alongside Bahnu Kapil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc5G2-rTKis

Bhanu Kapil interviews



Here are a couple, I'd urge you to start with the first as the format of the interview itself speaks to the kinds of texts we have been working through.
http://gestureliteraryjournal.com/july-2013-page-16.html
http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/unfold-is-the-wrong-word-an-interview-with-bhanu-kapil/

Thinking Documentary




Dear All,

Before we jump into Bhanu Kapil's Humanimal, I wanted you to take a close look at this essay by Trinh T Minh-ha, not from the book I talked about (and also this is not the essay I had decided upon first, I changed my mind in the course of the weekend and decided to leave the reading of this and the first part of Humanimal to next week) but from a different collection. I believe this sets more of a base reading as to her critique of how documentary film making is regarded by different streams of film theorists as well as where she stands with that.

Here it is:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4u8Of958MnQUHJwR2hZREZPbGs/edit?usp=sharing