O cinema feminista e pós-colonial de Trinh T. Minh-ha : uma análise aplicada ao filme “Surname Viet given name Nam”

Abstract

The present study develops an analysis of the film "Surname Viet given name Nam" associated to reflections on fields of knowledge that help to improve the understanding of the cinema realized by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Like this filmmaker, the other voices in the film are from Vietnamese women. As a postcolonial feminist, Trinh T. Minh-ha seeks to create modes of agency for these voices while questioning the truth of the reason of patriarchal systems in their macro- logies and micro- logies, from the discourse that forges impartially and transparently to the authoritative discourse that insists in keeping the woman as a determined subject from the look of man. Trinh T. Minh-ha seeks to apply in his cinematographic realization, in aesthetic and conceptual structures, his ideological perspective in a political and engaged way so as to materialize in his artistic work his criticism as to the forms of presentation of the organizations of power.