{"id":55582,"date":"2015-08-11T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55582"},"modified":"2015-08-11T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T10:30:13","slug":"cinema-on-the-edge-yumen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55582","title":{"rendered":"CINEMA ON THE EDGE: YUMEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday,  August 11  9PM<br \/>\nAnthology Film Archives<br \/>\n32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao, and JP Sniadecki<br \/>\n2013, 65 min, 16mm-to-digital. In Gansu dialect with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>Two Chinese avant-garde artists and an American experimental filmmaker have collaborated on a stunningly beautiful Chinese experimental-fiction-documentary that dazzlingly combines ghost stories and &#8220;ruin porn&#8221; to form a celluloid psycho-collage. Shot on 16mm film, it&#8217;s set in the largely abandoned oil drilling town of Yumen &#8211; a place with an ancient, poetic history in China&#8217;s western Gansu province &#8211; and takes us through trashed, desolate urban spaces abandoned by Chinese socialism. But the filmmakers bring these places alive with their cast of ghosts, artists, vagabond dancers, and singers. It&#8217;s a film chock full of fascinating things: massive oil pumps and sun-blasted vistas; nude performance art and impromptu flamenco; fuzzy bunny rabbits and snarling canines; groovy 70s Taiwan pop and contemporary Korean girl bands; socialist nostalgia and postmodern pastiche.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and information visit:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthologyfilmarchives.org\/film_screenings\/series\/44667\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.anthologyfilmarchives.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, August 11 9PM Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003<\/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-55582","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\/55582","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=55582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}