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Between Disorder and Unexpected Pleasures: Tales from the New Chinese Cinema

Between Disorder and Unexpected Pleasures: Tales from the New Chinese Cinema

Chinese film screenings, April 6 to 9

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater in the Walt Disney Concert Hall presents a series of Chinese film screenings.

Disney Concert Hall
Address: 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Cost: General admission $9, Students $7 with ID, Calarts students, faculty, and staff $5
Phone: 213 237-2800
Website: www.redcat.org/event/between-disorder-and-unexpected-pleasures


 
Wednesday, April 6 | 8:30 pm

ZHU WEN: THOMAS MAO (XIAO DONGXI)

Los Angeles premiere | 2010, 80 min., DigiBeta

Novelist/filmmaker Zhu Wen has crafted, for his third feature, a droll, surreal, and ironic tale in which East meets West . . . or does it? Thomas is a painter trekking through the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, and Mao the scruffy “innkeeper” who lodges him. Gradually, what appears to be “reality” shifts. Who is the butterfly, who is the philosopher?

 

Thursday, April 7 | 8:30 pm

LI HONGQI: WINTER VACATION (HANJIA)

Los Angeles premiere | 2010, 91 min., HDCAM

Slackers in Inner Mongolia meet the poetry of the absurd. In a dreary little northern town, kids have nothing to do . . . while the adults are wily or apathetic. For his third feature, poet/filmmaker Li Hongqi effortlessly leads the viewer through a series of breathtaking tableaux in which tension accumulates and then releases in unexpected, and often wickedly funny, ways.

 

Friday, April 8 | 8:30 pm

LIU JIAYIN: OXHIDE II (NIUPI II)

Los Angeles premiere | 2009, 133 min., DigiBeta

In 2004, at 23, Liu Jiayin shot Oxhide in CinemaScope in her parents’ 50-square-meter apartment. She is back at REDCAT with an even bolder “sequel.” More tightly constructed—nine shots that go around a kitchen/workshop/dining table in 45-degree increments, performing a complete 180-degree match—Oxhide II is also dryly humorous, intelligent and insightful, deconstructing the dynamics of a family in crisis.

 

Saturday, April 9 | 3:00 pm

HAO JIE: SINGLE MAN (GUANGYUN)

U.S. premiere | 2010, 95 min., HDCAM

“This is a strange and delightful thing from China: a sex comedy, bawdy and a little raunchy, about four elderly farmers . . . all non-professional actors playing fictionalized versions of themselves. New director Hao Jie, with a bit of Boccaccio and a dollop of Rabelais, reveals a side of rural China you’ve probably never seen before . . . Chinese indie cinema at its most wryly entertaining.” —Vancouver International Film Festival

 

Saturday, April 9 | 7:00 pm

HUANG WEIKAI: DISORDER (XIAN ZAI SHI GUO QU DE WEI LAI)

Los Angeles premiere | 2009, 58 min., DVCAM

An original experiment on how to translate urban texture on the screen. Huang Weikai collected more than 1,000 hours of footage shot by amateurs and journalists in the streets of Guangzhou. He then selected 20-odd incidents, reworked the images into quasi-surreal grainy black-and-white and montaged them to create a kaleidoscopic view of the great southern metropolis, in all her vibrant, loud and mean chaos.

 

Saturday, April 9 | 9:30 pm

JIA ZHANGKE: I WISH I KNEW (HAI SHANG CHUAN QI)

Los Angeles premiere | 2010, 138 min., HDCAM

 An alluring hybrid of documentary and fiction. Here Jia weaves a dense texture between amorously shot footage of contemporary Shanghai and the films the city created or inspired. Peeking through the gaps of an architecture menaced by permanent urban renewal, he finds the traces of a romantic or brutal past, and echoes the voices of survivors or those who went into exile.

Curated by Cheng-Sim Lim and Bérénice Reynaud.

Program presented in collaboration with Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Pomona College Art Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles Filmforum and Echo Park Film Center.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

Presented in collaboration with Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Pomona College Art Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles Filmforum and Echo Park Film Center. Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

 

Tel: 213 37-2800

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