Night Passage
(98 mins, color, 2004)

Directed and Produced by: TRINH T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul BOURDIER
Written and edited by: TRINH T. Minh-ha
Production and Lighting Design by: Jean-Paul BOURDIER
Music By: The Construction of Ruins, with Greg Goodman, George Cremaschi & Dave Slusser
Associate Producer: Minh Thai Tran
Line Producer: Erica Marcus
Production Manager: Rony Gerzberg
Art Director: Brent Kanbayashi
Actors:
Yuan Li-Chi
Denice Lee
Joshua Miller
Vernon Bush
Howard Dillon
Luis Saguar
Alexis Lezin

Night Passage is a film on friendship and death in transcultural time. Made in homage to Kenji Miyazawa's novel, Milky Way Railroad, the story evolves around the spiritual journey of a young woman (Kyra), in the company of her best friend (Nabi) and a little boy (Shin), into a world of rich in-between realities. Their journey into the land of 'awakened dream' and out is experienced as a passage of cross-cultural appearances, from a death to a return in life, that occurs during a long ride on a night train. At each stop of the train, the travelers set out in the dark to come across an inner space of longing, in which their eyes and ears meet with events at once too familiar and oddly strange. Playing with the space of two-dimensional spectacles, the film itself unfolds in the rhythm of a train of window images, and each of the places visited features, with magnetic intensity, an artistic means of communication of our times.