8 pm: China Doc 04 • two shorts

• 20 h • 8 pm China Doc part 04 curated by Marina Foxley


two shorts


• Xu Xin CN Carriage (che xiang) 18 min, bw, DV, 2004

Spring Festival is coming. It is the time for family reunion, including for the migratory workers who have left their hometown all year long struggling for a living in big cities. A cheap train ticket is their first choice. So begins the annual overcrowding of railroad transportation...

• Wei Tie CN People of Yangtze River 28 min, DV, 2005

A contemplative documentary showing the daily life of the business men, the peasants who sell agricultural products and the youths that wander and grow on the pier on the longest river in China, the Yangtze.

Marina Foxley will be present

In cooperation with Zhu Rikun and Fanhall Studio, Bejing

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6.30 pm: China Doc 03 • Outside

• 20 h • 8 pm China Doc part 02 curated by Marina Foxley

Outside


• Wang Wo CN Outside 86 min, DV, 2005



The footage of this film was taken in Beijing between 2001 to 2005. It shows several snippets of trivial ordinary and accidental things that happen every day outside in the streets. By seing bits of daily life in the film, perhaps we can see our real life, its commonness, its unexpected and so on...

Marina Foxley will be present

In cooperation with Zhu Rikun and Fanhall Studio, Bejing

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8 pm: China Doc 02 • Paigu

• 20 h • 8 pm China Doc part 03 curated by Marina Foxley

Paigu

• Liu Gaoming CN Paigu 106 min, DV, 2006




Paigu is a young man from Jiangxi Province, selling pirate DVDs in Shenzhen to make a living. It is rather cynical that he sells only art films, knows everything about them but has never seen one. He said that he possibly would not understand them because of his poor education backround. He has always expected romance too, but he thinks that people like him has no chance to find true love.

Paigu ist ein junger Mann, der von der Provinz Jiangxi kommt, und gebrannte DVDs in Shenzhen verkauft, um für seine Bedürfnisse aufzukommen. Die Filme, die er verkauft, sind Autorenfilme. Er kennt sie alle, jedoch sah er davon keinen. Er denkt, daß er sie wegen seines schwachen Bildungsniveaus nicht verstehen kann. Er hofft, eines Tages der Liebe zu begegnen, obwohl er an seinem Glück zweifelt.

Marina Foxley will be present

In cooperation with Zhu Rikun and Fanhall Studio, Bejing

 

10 pm: China Doc 01 • Dream Walking

• 22 h • 10 pm China Doc part 01 curated by Marina Foxley

Dream Walking

• Huang Wenhai CN Dream Walking (Meng You) 85 min, DV, 2005

• Li Wake CN Beyond Sound 30 min, DV, 2005

Dream Walking (Meng You)
Summer 2004, several artists talk about art, poetry, religion and improvise, perform while shooting. Among them, there are Li Wake, a behaviour artist, who helps the painter Wang Yongping to shoot his first film, Ding Defu, a famous painter in the 80s, and Bei Bei a famous web poet and also a night watchman.Their style of living, their attitude towards life are inherent to their artistic creation. Dream Walking is the second film of the trilogy of the Masses, the first was Floating Dust (2004). The film won the Great Prize at the Cinéma du Réel, Paris 2006

Beyond Sound



Hundred years ago, the first movie appeared in China. At the same time, the first deaf-dumb school in China “School of Enlightening” was established. In 2005, for the 100th anniversary of Chinese Movie and the deaf-dumb school, Li Wake chooses deaf-dumb people as the leading actors of the film. The film expresses the current living environment of the director and annotates the relationship between the country and its people in a visualized way.

Marina Foxley will be present

In cooperation with Zhu Rikun and Fanhall Studio, Bejing

12 pm: assorted shorts: Body Works and Inuit Games

• 24 h • 12 pm assorted shorts

compiled by Directors Lounge

Body Works and Inuit Games



• Marina Foxley FR Still Life 14 min, DV, 2006

• Renata Padovan BR Silver Man 10 min, DV, 2006

• Usama and Kristie Alshaibi IQ/US Self -Contained 2 min 15s,16mm, 2004

• Anne Maisoneuve FR Inuit Games 7 min 39s, DV, 2006