A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
August 23, 2020
Original Title:
Night Passage
Alternate Titles:
밤의 여로
Genres:
Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Moongift Films
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 98
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.
Art Direction:
Brent Kanbayashi
Associate Producer:
Minh Thai Tran
Director:
Jean-Paul Bourdier
Trịnh T. Minh-hà
Director of Photography:
Kathleen Beeler
Editor:
Trịnh T. Minh-hà
Lighting Design:
Jean-Paul Bourdier
Line Producer:
Erica Marcus
Music:
The Construction of Ruins
Producer:
Trịnh T. Minh-hà
Jean-Paul Bourdier
Production Design:
Jean-Paul Bourdier
Production Manager:
Rony Gerzberg
Sound Designer:
Trịnh T. Minh-hà
Writer:
Trịnh T. Minh-hà
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