郑明河与她的“纪录片”

Trinh T.Minh-ha and Her"Documentary"

郑明河是一位国际知名的越南裔美国艺术家,以影像艺术作品著称。其作品有较高的艺术造诣,在影像和声音的结合上有独到的表现。她的部分作品以纪实的影像为材料,表达和伸张个人的思想和观念,一些西方后现代的纪录片理论将其作品纳入纪录片的范畴。但细究郑明河的作品,尽管使用的是纪实材料,但却不排斥虚构,因而只是一种“伪纪录片”。其个人的思想与观念尽管贴上了“女权主义”的标签,但本质上依然摆脱不了西方的“政治正确”和“冷战”意识。

As a world-famous Vietnamese-American artist known for her works of imaging art,Trinh T.Minhha displays her high artistic attainments and unique representations in the combination of images and sounds.With documentary images as material,some of her works express and uphold her own philosophy and ideas,which are included in the category of documentary by some western postmodernist theories about documentary.However,a detailed analysis of her works exposes that she uses documentary material,but does not reject fiction,so her works are just a kind of"fake documentary".Despite the tag of"feminism"on her creation concepts,she still cannot break away from the western ideologies of"political correctness"and"Cold War"in nature.