Tran T. Kim Trang

Tran T. Kim Trang

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Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life 2006

How can we make visible the invisible? How can we "see" our lost loved ones? In EPILOGUE, Vietnamese-American filmmaker Tran T. Kim Trang looks for answers to these questions in the audio recordings of her dead mother, the handwritinng of the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the ultrasound photos of her newborn baby. Finding no ready-made answers, Tran invites us to reflect about life and death in this moving video essay about motherhood and mourning. EPILOGUE is the eight and final installment of Tran's THE BLINDNESS SERIES.
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operculum 1993

A visit with seven cosmetic surgeons specializing in surgical eyelid alteration. Depicts this procedure as self-mutilation, a desperate cure and extreme antidote to undesirable "Oriental" features. Includes a textual description of amygdalectomy through the orbital socket.
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ekleipsis 1998

"I came across a New York Times article about a group of hysterically blind Cambodian women in Long Beach, California, the largest group of such people known in the world. Hysterical blindness is sight loss brought about by traumatic stress with little or no physical cause." This tape delves into two histories: the history of hysteria and of the Cambodian civil war. It examines the ascendant quality of personalities that survive great trauma and loss and looks at how individuals normalize experiences and histories of "unassimilatable" pain.