Performing China: Contemporary Chinese Film And Media

Organized by independent curator and critic Zhou Xin, the program presented work made between 2009 and 2013 by film and media artists not often screened in the U.S. Focusing on moving image works related to such topics as repressed memory, performance, landscape and immigration, the series considered the shifting relationship between the personal and the national in contemporary China.

Performing China featured several U.S. theatrical premieres and included work by Gu Tao, Huang Xiang, J.P. Sniadecki, Miao Jiaxin, Wen Hui and Xu Ruotao.

Program Schedule
Friday, September 20 @ 7pm – Ruin Tourism
On the Way to the Sea. Directed by Gu Tao. 2009.
Building Archaeology. Directed by Xu Ruotao. 2011.
Yumen. Directed by J.P.Sniadecki, Xu Ruotao, Huang Xiang. 2013.
*Zhou Xin led a post-screening discussion of the films.

Wednesday, September 25 @ 7pm – Performing the Cultural Revolution
Rumination. Directed by Xu Ruotao. 2009.
*Post-screening discussion with Professor Angela Zito, co-director of the New York University Center for Religion and Media.

Friday, September 27 @ 7pm – Body as Archive
Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories. Directed by Wen Hui. 2011.
Chinaman’s Suitcase. Directed by Miao Jiaxin. 2011.
*Miao Jiaxin participated in a post-screening discussion.

Special thanks to Libbie Dina Cohn and Yang Aonan (GreenGround Productions).