Screening of Night Passage, Film by Internationally Renowned Trinh Minh-ha
March 4 , 2005
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Night Passage, a film by internationally renowned critical theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha, will be screened at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16, in Carnegie Cinema. The screenings are presented in conjunction with Minh-ha’s visit to Penn State (she will not be present at the screenings). She is giving a public lecture at 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday, March 15, in the HUB Auditorium and also giving the plenary address at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, hosted this year by the Penn State Department of Comparative Literature. |
Night Passage is a film about friendship and death in trans-cultural time. Made in homage to Kenji Miyazawa's novel Milky Way Railroad, the story revolves around the spiritual journey of a young woman (Kyra) into a world of rich in-between realities, accompanied by her best friend (Nabi) and a little boy (Shin). Their journey through the land of ‘awakened dream’ is experienced as a passage of cross-cultural appearances, which occurs during a long ride on a night train. At each stop of the train, the travelers set out in the dark to discover an inner space of longing, in which they encounter events at once familiar and strange.
Minh-ha has produced seven feature-length films that have been included in 30 retrospectives around the world, including the 2002 international art exhibition Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany. Her films have won various awards, including the 1992 Sundance Film Festival’s award for best cinematography. She is also the author of seven books, most recently Cinema Interval (1999) and Framer Framed (1992). Her newest book, The Digital Film Event, is forthcoming.
Minh-ha’s visit is co- sponsored by the School of Visual Arts, John M. Anderson Endowment, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Film, Video, and Media Studies, the Women’s Studies Program, the Women's Self Representation Project, the Department of English, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Rock Ethics Institute, the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the College of Communication, the College of Arts and Architecture, the College of Liberal Arts, Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the HUB Robeson Galleries.
Contact: Ann Shostrom, ams26@psu.edu or 814-863-9701