NIGHT PASSAGE

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Jean-Paul Bourdier • U.S. • 2004 • 98 min. • Digital

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.

TRAILER

FESTIVALS, AWARDS & ALTERNATIVE SCREENINGS (Highlights)

Senef Film Festival, Seoul. South Korea (2004)
The Shanghai Art Biennale. China (2004)
The Busan Art Biennale. South Korea (2004)
The Asian American Int’l Film Festival, New York. United States (2024)
The 10th Annual Performance Studies Int’ l Conference. (Singapore 2004)
Visual Communication Los Angeles Asian Festival. (USA 2004)
Women in the Director’s Chair. Chicago (USA 2004)
Image Forum Film Festival Tokyo. Japan (2005)
Tapei Artist Village. Taiwan (2005)

CREW

DIRECTORS & PRODUCERS
Jean-Paul Bourdier
Trinh T. Minh-ha

WRITTER
Trinh T. Minh-ha

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Kathleen Beeler

PRODUCTION & LIGHTING DESIGN
Jean-Paul Bourdier

LINE PRODUCER & PRODUCTION MANAGER
Erica Marcus
Rony Gerzberg

ART DIRECTOR
Brent Kanbayashi

EDITOR
Trinh T. Minh-ha

MUSIC
The Construction of Ruins with Greg Goodman
George Cremaschi
Dave Slusser

CAST
Yuan Li-Chi
Denice Lee
Joshua Miller
Vernon Bush
Howard Dillon
Luis Saguar

SALES
María Vera (KINO REBELDE)