March 3, 2004

Filmmaker Trinh Minh-ha to present Night Passage

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California State University, Sacramento will host an evening with director Trinh Minh-ha that includes a showing of her new film, Night Passage. The free event begins at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 27 in the University Union Hinde Auditorium. The presentation is part of the University's 12th annual Festival of the Arts.

Scenes from filmmaker Trinh Minh-ha’s Night Passage.

The award-winning UC Berkeley professor's seventh feature-length film is a tribute to Kenji Miyazawa's novel Milky Way Railroad. Trinh's film tells the story of three young people on a spiritual journey. The tale presents itself as a series of images through a train window.

Trinh's other films include The Fourth Dimension, A Tale of Love, Shoot for The Contents, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Naked Spaces - Living in the Round and Reassemblage.

A multiple National Endowment for the Arts recipient and a Guggenheim fellow, Trinh Minh-ha is also an accomplished author and composer. Her list of books includes 1999's Cinema Interval, 1996's collaboration with Jean-Paul Bourdier Drawn from African Dwellings and 1992's Framer Framed. Her musical pieces include "Poems" and "Four Pieces for Electronic Music."

A reception will follow the screening of Night Passage.

For more information call (916) 278-6997. Media assistance is available from CSUS public affairs at (916) 278-6156.

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