What Is Trinh T Minh-Ha's The Fourth Dimension?
Trinh T Minh-Ha’s, The Fourth Dimension, is a sensitive and enigmatic exercise of ‘speaking nearby’. Taking Japan as a reflection locus, Trinh builds a personal journey in time and space through the rhythms that emanate from rituals and daily life. The experience of watching the film is at first disturbing; you realize quickly that conventions and order that "normally" structures a film and lead the understanding of its content will not serve here. Accordingly, it requires the viewer to criticize their initial reactions and open to an uncertain reception experience that enables new ways of understanding and experiencing film. She creates a sensory dimension in which image, sound, memory, personal experience (of Trinh with the audience as well)