{"id":38576,"date":"2014-04-12T08:49:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=38576"},"modified":"2014-02-07T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T20:48:30","slug":"the-piano-in-a-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=38576","title":{"rendered":"THE PIANO IN A FACTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 12, 2014, 7:00 PM<br \/>\nNYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts<br \/>\n566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/THE-PIANO-IN-A-FACTORY.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[38576]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/THE-PIANO-IN-A-FACTORY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Set among the \u201clost generation\u201d of workers in the heavy industrial area in northeastern China who were hit by the policies of reform and economic openness in the 1990s, we see them rekindle their skills and rediscover the joy of working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst rate cinematography, set design and editing are in perfect sync with the director&#8217;s comic intent.\u201d THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER<br \/>\nWhen Chen\u2019s estranged wife (QIN HAI-LU) reappears asking for a divorce and custody of their daughter, the young musician decides she will live with whoever can provide her a piano. When efforts to borrow money and even steal a piano fail, Chen (WANG QIAN-YUAN) concocts a preposterous plan \u2013 to make a piano from scratch! He persuades a bunch of reluctant but loyal misfit friends to help him forge the instrument in a derelict factory from a heap of scrap steel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A Post Screening<\/strong><br \/>\nZhang Meng, Director<br \/>\nZhang Zhen, Associate Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, (Moderator)<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nyuskirball.org\/calendar\/pianofactory\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nyuskirball.org\/calendar\/pianofactory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 12, 2014, 7:00 PM NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38580,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38576\/revisions\/38580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}