22° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Detours

Through Passing

Through Passing

Country: USA
Year: 2004
Duration: 8'


A young woman revisits a profoundly difficult moment of her childhood and transcends her past through movement. A combination of dance and narrative fragments that uses imageries to explore the desire to reconcile what is irreconcilable and to transcend what is irreversible.

Biography

film director

Chishan Lin

Lin Chishan , writer, ballerina and Director, has traveled extensively in Asia and America. She settled down in Brazil to work as a volunteer for an organization that helps street children. During her frequent voyages, she has matured an interest in the traditional aspects of the various cultures she has encountered. After working with Peter Sellars and Trinh T. Min-Ha, she focused on art as a social action at the University of California, where she received her Master's Degree in Film Directing.

FILMOGRAFIA

Return (2002), (Un)equal Voices (doc, 2003), Through Passing (cm, 2004).

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