Yuan
Li-Chi
Denice Lee
Joshua Miller
Howard Dillon
Luis Saguar
Trinh
T. Minh-ha |
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| 98 min. digital film (2005) | |||||||||
| Produced and Directed by | Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier | ||||||||
| Written & Edited by | Trinh T. Minh-ha | ||||||||
| Production and Lighting Design | Jean-Paul Bourdier | ||||||||
| Director of Photography | Kathleen Beeler | ||||||||
| Line Producer & Production Manager | Erica Marcus & Rony Gerzberg | ||||||||
| Art Director | |||||||||
| Brent Kanbayashi | |||||||||
| Music by | The Construction of Ruins with Greg Goodman, George Cremaschi and Dave Slusser | ||||||||
| Featuring | Yuan
Li-Chi |
Vernon
Bush Howard Dillon Luis Saguar |
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Night Passage is a digital film on friendship and death. Made in homage to Miyazawa Kenji's classic novel, Milky Way Railroad, the story evolves around the spiritual journey of a young woman, in the company of her best friend and a little boy, into a world of rich in-between realities. Their venture into and out of the land of "awakened dreams" occurs during a long ride on a night train. The filmmaker elegantly depicts each encounter in two-dimensional space with a unique artistic gesture and ingeniously frames the passage as a series of rhythmic image sequensces as seen through the window of a train. "Fabulous dreamscapes combining the whimsy of childhood imagination and the sensuality and eeriness of adult fantasies and nightmares." |
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| -Visual Communications Filmfest 2004 | ||
| "The strange spaces of Night Passage are urban and metallic, with wet pools, like an underground labyrinth... in brilliant colors and deep night shadows: we dance deaths' movements as it tumbles, rifts, shivers, whirls." | ||
| - Katherine Mezur | ||
"Trinh Minh-ha consistently challenges her audiences with each work, constantly shifting the ways in which she critically engages with the form and spirit of cinema. |
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| -Irina Leimbacher, San Francisco Cinematheque | ||
| "Spectacularly shot in video... The netherworld between life and death is viewed as a place of light, shadow, movement and uncertain ideas in Night Passage... a majestic sense of subconscious" | ||
| -Variety | ||
| "A tableaux-rich, transcultural film... this experimental narrative work continues [Trinh's] knack for consistently unsettling audiences" | ||
| -Asian American Film Festival | ||
Festivals Image Forum Film Festival, Tokyo (Japan 2005) |
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