Art
Wu Wenguang | 1995 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film picks up with the five artists featured in Wu’s previous film, Bumming in Beijing. The film was shot between 1993 and 1995. In the five years since they appeared in Bumming in Beijing, the five artists have scattered to the four corners of the world. The film marks the changes in their lives and the anxieties, cont...
Synopsis:
This film picks up with the five artists featured in Wu’s previous film, Bumming in Beijing. The film was shot between 1993 and 1995. In the five years since they appeared in Bumming in Beijing, the five artists have scattered to the four corners of the world. The film marks the changes in their lives and the anxieties, cont...
Wu Wenguang | 1990 | 70 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The film is an account of the wanderings of five young artists who recently came to Beijing from the provinces. In order to pursue their own artistic dreams they rejected the state-assigned jobs and led a roomer’s life in Beijing, without a fixed income or the security of a home. The film was shot over two years. By the end ...
Synopsis:
The film is an account of the wanderings of five young artists who recently came to Beijing from the provinces. In order to pursue their own artistic dreams they rejected the state-assigned jobs and led a roomer’s life in Beijing, without a fixed income or the security of a home. The film was shot over two years. By the end ...
Chen Zhong | 2005 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The emergence of China’s independent filmmaking movement took place soon after the ’89 Tiananmen Square Incident. This documentary includes on-camera interviews with China’s well-known independent filmmakers, such as Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, Wu Wenguang, and several others. These directors opened up and c...
Synopsis:
The emergence of China’s independent filmmaking movement took place soon after the ’89 Tiananmen Square Incident. This documentary includes on-camera interviews with China’s well-known independent filmmakers, such as Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, Wu Wenguang, and several others. These directors opened up and c...
Wu Wenguang | 2001 | 60 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Dance with Farm Workers is a documentary about an avant-garde dance performance of the same name. The performance featured thirty Beijing farm workers from the poorer regions of Sichuan Province. Rehearsals and the performance took place in the production hall of a former textile factory that was tagged for demolition. T...
Synopsis:
Dance with Farm Workers is a documentary about an avant-garde dance performance of the same name. The performance featured thirty Beijing farm workers from the poorer regions of Sichuan Province. Rehearsals and the performance took place in the production hall of a former textile factory that was tagged for demolition. T...
Huang Weikai | 2005 | 93 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The film’s subject is Yang, a 30-year-old vagrant from rural Henan Province. He earns his living singing in the subway stations in urban business centers. He carries with him his temporary residency card and identification card in hopes that the local police won’t catch him.
China’s economic disparity betw...
Synopsis:
The film’s subject is Yang, a 30-year-old vagrant from rural Henan Province. He earns his living singing in the subway stations in urban business centers. He carries with him his temporary residency card and identification card in hopes that the local police won’t catch him.
China’s economic disparity betw...
Mao Ran | 2001 | 82 min. | Chinese subtitles
Synopsis：
The dialogs were filmed on Halloween in 2001 outside the Wonderland Bar. Nan, the owner of the bar, asked us to throw a rock and roll party. When it was heating up inside I went out to catch a breath. There in the cool autumn air were some folks chatting. All of a sudden I started filming them with my newly purchased...
Synopsis：
The dialogs were filmed on Halloween in 2001 outside the Wonderland Bar. Nan, the owner of the bar, asked us to throw a rock and roll party. When it was heating up inside I went out to catch a breath. There in the cool autumn air were some folks chatting. All of a sudden I started filming them with my newly purchased...
Chen Zhong | 2004 | 86 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
In the summer of 1999, the political climate in China was tense. Not only was it the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Incident, but the Chinese government was cracking down on the Falungong movement.
In this nervous atmosphere a group of avant-garde artists in Chengdu were creating conceptual performanc...
Synopsis:
In the summer of 1999, the political climate in China was tense. Not only was it the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Incident, but the Chinese government was cracking down on the Falungong movement.
In this nervous atmosphere a group of avant-garde artists in Chengdu were creating conceptual performanc...
Gu Yaping | 2007 | 82 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
My Dear is about several women that belong to urban art circles. The film documents their struggles in and out of marriage, the discrepancies between their ideals and realities, the confusion in their hearts and the discord and love among them. Through looking at their lives, the director explores her own. ...
Synopsis:
My Dear is about several women that belong to urban art circles. The film documents their struggles in and out of marriage, the discrepancies between their ideals and realities, the confusion in their hearts and the discord and love among them. Through looking at their lives, the director explores her own. ...
Tian Miao | 2006 | 100 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The Blind Singers of Taihang follows the last blind entertainment troupe in Shanxi Province. Founded in the 1930s, the Blind Men Propaganda Team of Zuoquan County has been servicing remote villages close to the Taihang Mountains. Despite adverse weather and tough geographic locations, not to mention their own handicap, the...
Synopsis:
The Blind Singers of Taihang follows the last blind entertainment troupe in Shanxi Province. Founded in the 1930s, the Blind Men Propaganda Team of Zuoquan County has been servicing remote villages close to the Taihang Mountains. Despite adverse weather and tough geographic locations, not to mention their own handicap, the...
Mao Ran | 2003 | 25 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film is about the happenings in Shu Cun Village in Beijing. "Shu Cun" (literally meaning “Tree Village”) was an ordinary village on the outskirts of Beijing. Then young musicians and lovers of rock and roll began congregating there and by the late 90s it was famous. The film follows the musicians living there, ...
Synopsis:
This film is about the happenings in Shu Cun Village in Beijing. "Shu Cun" (literally meaning “Tree Village”) was an ordinary village on the outskirts of Beijing. Then young musicians and lovers of rock and roll began congregating there and by the late 90s it was famous. The film follows the musicians living there, ...
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