Night Passage (2004)

Night Passage is a digital film on friendship and death Made in homage to Miyazawa Kenjis 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 inbetween 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 twodimensional 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