{"id":55679,"date":"2015-09-13T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55679"},"modified":"2015-08-08T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T21:06:07","slug":"cinema-on-the-edge-i-want-to-a-peoples-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55679","title":{"rendered":"CINEMA ON THE EDGE: I WANT TO A PEOPLE&#8217;S REPRESENTATIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, September 13  3PM<br \/>\nUnionDocs<br \/>\n322 Union Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Can a documentary camera be a tool for democracy in China? Jia Zhitan certainly thinks so, and wields his camera like an anti-bureaucratic weapon. Jia, a member of Caochangdi\u2019s influential Villagers Documentary Project (organizer Wu Wenguang has been training local villagers to use digital video cameras to record their participation in ultra-local politics), wants to run to be a delegate to the National People\u2019s Congress. He wins the first round, but is deemed unqualified by officials for reasons they keep to themselves. As the irrepressibly scrappy and stubborn Jia seeks explanations and redress from ever higher levels of authority, he records their interactions scenes that would play as entertaining satiric comedy if they weren\u2019t so frustratingly real.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and information at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniondocs.org\/event\/2015-09-12-peoples-representative\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.uniondocs.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, September 13 3PM UnionDocs 322 Union Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211<\/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-55679","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\/55679","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=55679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55682,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55679\/revisions\/55682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}