Director: Trinh T. Minh-Ha Production Year: 1982 Length: 40 min Language: English with English subtitles
Women are the focus but not the object of Trinh T. Minh-ha’s influential first film, a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through her construction of a complicit interaction between film and spectator, the director reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures.