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Tales from the New Chinese Cinema April 29–May 1, 2011 at Museum of the Moving Image , New York

In recent years, independent Chinese cinema has experienced an astonishing resurgence. Digital equipment has allowed filmmakers to be bolder, more daring, and to explore hybrid forms of documentary and fiction, and mix found and live footage while playing with varied formal strategies. Reaching beyond nostalgia and social protest, emerging filmmakers are plumbing surprising corners of Chinese reality with humor that is alternately light, dark, saucy, dry, raunchy, and conceptual. Expect the unexpected.

Featured Works:
City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!, Lu Chuan, 2009); Disorder (Xianshi shi quoqu de weilai, Huang Weikai, 2009); Oxhide II (Niupi er, Liu Jiayin, 2009); Single Man (Guanggun'er, Hao Jie, 2010); Thomas Mao (Xiao dongxi, Zhu Wen, 2010, pictured); Winter Vacation (Hanjia, Lie Hongqi, 2010)

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Tales from the New Chinese Cinema

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