Wednesday, August 12 at 7:00 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
Yang Mingming
FEMALE DIRECTORS / NÜ DAOYAN
(2012, 43 min, digital. In Mandarin with English subtitles.)
Two brilliant young women, art school graduates with deliciously profane vocabularies and supreme confidence, talk sex, cinema, and power, as they wield their shared video camera like a scalpel. Yang’s superb debut is hilarious, moving, and subversive.
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Wen Hui
LISTENING TO THIRD GRANDMOTHER’S STORIES / TING SAN NAINAI JIANG GUOQUDE SHIQING
(2012, 75 min, digital, b&w/color. In Mandarin with English subtitles.)
A language written by women confronts official ideology in dancer/choreographer/filmmaker Wen Hui’s film. She starts from stories her 83-year-old great-aunt tells her of being tortured as a “class enemy” during Mao’s China: the result is poetry, an experimental documentary that combines testimony and dance-like gesture, in black-and-white and color.
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