{"id":55684,"date":"2015-09-13T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55684"},"modified":"2015-08-08T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T21:12:37","slug":"cinema-on-the-edge-satiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55684","title":{"rendered":"CINEMA ON THE EDGE: SATIATED VILLAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, September 13\u00a0 6:30PM<br \/>\nUnionDocs<br \/>\n322 Union Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Satiated-Village.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[55684]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55687\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Satiated-Village-1023x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Satiated-Village-1023x558.jpg 1023w, http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Satiated-Village.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zou Xueping\u2019s took her first documentary The Hungry Village (part of Caochangdi Workstation\u2019s Folk Memory Project) \u2014 made up of first-person testimony about the effects of the Great Famine of 1960 (see Hu Jie\u2019s Spark for another view) on her home village in Shandong \u2014\u00a0 back home to show her subjects. They unanimously disapproved. Frustrated and full of doubt, Zou then made this second documentary discussing the villagers\u2019 reactions to her first. This wonderful, searching, self-reflexive film questions the necessity and usefulness of truth-telling via cinema, when it brings pain and even shame upon neighbours and family. Zou\u2019s 9-year-old niece emerges as its star, a girl who can balance competing exigencies of truth and love with a wisdom beyond her years.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and information at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniondocs.org\/event\/2015-09-13-satiated-village\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.uniondocs.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, September 13\u00a0 6:30PM 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-55684","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\/55684","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=55684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55689,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55684\/revisions\/55689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}