Trinh T. Minh-ha: The Twofold Commitment

An inventive reimagining in book form of the revered filmmaker and theorist's cinematic meditation on Vietnam's origins

At once an artist's book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on Trinh's 2015 feature film Forgetting Vietnam, which takes up one of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam: a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South ...