The Fourth Dimension

Renowned filmmaker Trinh, T. Minh-ha’s first foray into digital video is a compelling and exciting work as it sets out to examine Japan as represented by its art, culture and social rituals. Like her previous films, The Fourth Dimension is a complex work, addressing a myriad of issues-the experience of time, the impossibility of showing ‘the real’ and the effect of video on image composition. Constructed as a seamless mediation on time, travel and ceremony, a dialogue on the relationship between ritual and the past and present begins to emerge.