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The Fourth Dimension

Trinh T. Minh-ha
2001 United States 86 minutes Japanese
© Trinh Minh-Ha

Today, when one goes on a journey, the travel is ritualized through the visual machine. The image, coming alive in time as it frames time, is there where the actual and virtual meet. In the process of ritualizing Japan’s “hundred flowers,” it is the encounter between self and other, human and machine, viewer and image, fact and fancy that determines the field of relations in which new interactions between past and present are made possible. Shown in their widespread functions and manifestations, including more evident loci such as festival, religious rite and theatrical performance, “rituals” involve not only the regularity in the structure of everyday life, but also the dynamic agents in the ongoing process of creating digital images at the speed of light.

Production :
Minh-Ha Trinh; Jean-Paul Bourdier
Distribution :
Light Cone; BFI British Film Institute; Third World Newsreel
Editing :
Minh-Ha Trinh
Sound :
Minh-Ha Trinh
Photography :
Minh-Ha Trinh

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