An Evening with J. P. Sniadecki
Mon. May 20, 2013 at 7:00pm EDT
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Includes the following film:
Yumen
2013. China/USA. Directed by Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao, J. P. Sniadecki. This highly experimental twist on the ethnographic documentary visits the town of Yumen, in China’s northwest Gansu province, a once-thriving, oil-rich community in the 1980s that has been left depleted and derelict. Strikingly shot on film, Yumen tells the story of this ghost town through a series of wandering characters and inventive vignettes in which even the spirit of Bruce Springsteen is summoned to comment on a world in ruins. A collaboration between Chinese and American filmmakers, Yumen pushes the boundaries of the documentary aesthetic in depicting China’s past and present. Courtesy of the filmmakers. 65 min.
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