Drawing from footage shot mostly in rural China in the early 1990s, the film takes the notion of harmony as a site of creative manifestation throughout time. Harmony sums up three main relations: with society, with nature and with oneself. By means of a multiplicity of voices embedded in a rhythmic conversation between the still and the moving image, the viewer is invited to fare between ancient wisdom, avant-garde experiment and popular folk acumen as the film taps on the rich realm of affect.
Trinh T. Minh Ha
Filmmaker, writer, composer Trinh T. Minh-ha is a Distinguish Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes nine feature-length films honored in over sixty-four retrospectives around the world; several large-scale multimedia installations; and numerous books. Her many awards include the 2014 Wild Dreamer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb; the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from Women’s Caucus for Art; the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association; the 2006 Trailblazers Award at MIPDoc in Cannes, France; and the 1991 AFI National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award.