Trinh T. Minh-ha was born in 1952 in Hanoi, North Vietnam. She grew up in South Vietnam and five years before the end of the Vietnam War left for the USA. She studied ethnology, music and French literature and is regarded as one of the leading artists focusing on gender and postcolonial theory. As well as film, she also composes music and has written several books, one of which, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism from 1989, has received considerable attention. Though her films are shown mainly at festivals, Trinh Minh-ha also works with site-specific installations and in 2001, for instance, a retrospective was held of her works at the Secession Gallery, Vienna. Trinh Minh-ha has lived and worked in Paris, Dakar (from 1977 to 1980), Tokyo and Seoul, and today works at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.