Night Passage
Trinh T. Minh-ha
June 10, 18:00
Retrospectiva Trinh T. Minh-ha
international title
Night Passage
original title
Night Passage
year
2004
direction
Trinh T. Minh-ha, Jean-Paul Bourdier
film run
98’
ARGUMENT
Trinh T. Minh-ha
PHOTOGRAPHY
Kathleen Beeler
V.O.
Inglês
Subtitles
Português
synopsis
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 sequences as seen through the window of a train.