** Co-presented with the Romanian Film Festival Seattle, curated by American Romanian Cultural Society **
Video poetry presents an opportunity for the artistic disciplines to join in an uncanny intermingling. This screening is a place for the weird, awkward, and unreal to dialogue freely. Pieces in this selection mix media, languages, identities, and topics into an inspiring melange for the senses.
An exhausted delivery driver sprawls on the bench of a roadside park and drifts off. In his dream, workers gather together in a Shanzhai (imitation goods) park, where they stop to pose as statues. This all-star line up of contemporary youth-laborers in a dream setting explores China’s contemporary urban life: infused with technology and capital, new kinds of markets emerge, as well as new kinds of exploitation, anxieties, and dreams.
- Year2018
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageMandarin, with English subtitles
- CountryChina
- PremiereUS Premiere
- DirectorYuan Zheng
** Co-presented with the Romanian Film Festival Seattle, curated by American Romanian Cultural Society **
Video poetry presents an opportunity for the artistic disciplines to join in an uncanny intermingling. This screening is a place for the weird, awkward, and unreal to dialogue freely. Pieces in this selection mix media, languages, identities, and topics into an inspiring melange for the senses.
An exhausted delivery driver sprawls on the bench of a roadside park and drifts off. In his dream, workers gather together in a Shanzhai (imitation goods) park, where they stop to pose as statues. This all-star line up of contemporary youth-laborers in a dream setting explores China’s contemporary urban life: infused with technology and capital, new kinds of markets emerge, as well as new kinds of exploitation, anxieties, and dreams.
- Year2018
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageMandarin, with English subtitles
- CountryChina
- PremiereUS Premiere
- DirectorYuan Zheng