The Cyborg's Hand: Care or Control?

This article is an interview with Trinh T Minh-Ha by Valentina Vitali. Minh-Ha is a writer, filmmaker and composer. Born in Vietnam, she is a key figure in American independent cinema. Her multidisciplinary work includes a large-scale multimedia installation (Nothing but Ways, 1999, in coll.); seven books, including Cinema Interval (1999), and, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Drawn from African Dwellings (1996), and six feature-length films, which have been honoured in twenty-seven retrospectives around the world. She is Professor in Women's Studies, Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.