MCLC: Turn It On: China on Film, 2000-2017

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Turn It On: China on Film, 2000-2017
Presented concurrently with the exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, the Guggenheim is screening a film series cocurated by Ai Weiwei and filmmaker Wang Fen.  “Turn It On: China on Film, 2000–2017,” is a series of documentary films from China  produced between 2000 and 2017. You’ve posted about some of the filmmakers before, and I thought you might be interested.
The series is a comprised mostly of daytime screenings, which are free with museum admission. We have one additional film screening on January 4 that is in the evening. Find the screening schedule below
Daytime screenings are free with museum admission and take place in the New Media Theater.
Friday, November 3, 12 pm
Petition 上访, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Zhao Liang 赵亮
Mandarin with English subtitles, 315 min.
In this long-form documentary filmed over more than a decade, petitioners at Beijing South Railway Station Petition Office are confronted by contradictions in a system intended to protect citizens from legal injustice and political violation.
Saturday, November 4, 12 pm
Jiabiangou Elegy: Life and Death of the Rightists 夹边沟祭事, 2017
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Ai Xiaoming 艾晓明
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 409 min.
Survivors of the Jiabiangou labor camp and their children recount the persecution of over three thousand people sent for re-education through labor during the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–59.
Friday, November 10, 12 pm
Karamay 克拉玛依, 2010
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Xu Xin 徐辛
Mandarin with English subtitles, 356 min.
Archival footage and personal accounts from survivors and parents whose children were victims of the Karamay Friendship Theater fire of 1994 reveal the lingering emotional impact of a tragedy.
Saturday, November 11, 12 pm
Garden in Heaven 天堂花园, 2005 (US premiere)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Ai Xiaoming 艾晓明 and Hu Jie 胡杰
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 200 min.
After the date rape and murder of her daughter, a mourning mother struggles for justice in a society that denies legal recourse for sexual violence.
Friday, November 11, 3:20 pm
In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul 寻找林昭的灵魂, 2004
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Hu Jie 胡杰           
Mandarin with English subtitles, 116 min.
This film pieces together the life, path of resistance, and death of Lin Zhao, a fearless critic of the Communist Party during the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–59.
Friday, November 17, 12 pm
Prisoners in Freedom City 自由城的囚徒, 2007
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Hu Jia 胡佳 and Zeng Jinyan 曾金燕
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 36 min.
Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan are simultaneously the subjects and documentarians in this film that records their everyday experience while Hu was under house arrest from 2004 to 2008.
Friday, November 17, 12 pm
Prisoners in Freedom City 自由城的囚徒, 2007
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Hu Jia 胡佳 and Zeng Jinyan 曾金燕
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 36 min.
Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan are simultaneously the subjects and documentarians in this film that records their everyday experience while Hu was under house arrest from 2004 to 2008.
Friday, November 17, 12:40 pm
Nightingale, Not the Only Voice 夜莺不是唯一的歌喉, 2000
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Tang Danhong 唐丹鸿
Mandarin with English subtitles, 180 min.
This film follows three marginal artists at the turn of the millennium, including the film’s director, on their shared journey through real and psychological oppression to self-discovery.
Saturday, November 18, 12 pm
Apuda 阿仆大的守候, 2010 (US premiere)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by He Yuan 和渊
Naxi dialect with English subtitles, 145 min.
An intimate portrait of the daily life of a man and his son caring for each other as they face struggles with illness and intellectual disability.
Saturday, November 18, 2:30 pm 
Readymade 现成品, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Zhang Bingjian 张秉坚
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 79 min.
Mao Zedong died in 1976, but his impersonators are alive and well. This film documents two people who resemble Mao and assume Mao roles in contemporary entertainment.
Friday, November 24, 12 pm
Silver City 白银, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Li Peifeng 李沛峰
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 98 min.
Residents of a rural village along the West-East Gas Pipeline project are removed, by force and deceit, from the land that has sheltered them for generations.
Friday, November 24, 1:40 pm
When the Bough Breaks 危巢, 2013
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Ji Dan 季丹
Mandarin with English subtitles, 110 min.
With rapid urban development spreading across Beijing, a family who scavenges a living from the landfills that once covered the city’s Daxing District struggles against the vagaries of so much change.
Saturday, November 25, 12 pm
Sanlidong 三里洞, 2006
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Lin Xin 林鑫
Mandarin with English subtitles, 172 min.
A poetic portrayal of the abandoned Sanlidong coal mine and the workers still living there fifty years after the boom of China’s socialist industrialization.
Saturday, November 25, 2:55 pm 
Prisoners in Freedom City 自由城的囚徒, 2007
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Saturday, November 25, 2:55 pm
Directed by Hu Jia 胡佳 and Zeng Jinyan 曾金燕
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 36 min.
Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan are simultaneously the subjects and documentarians in this film that records their everyday experience while Hu was under house arrest from 2004 to 2008.
Friday, December 1, 12 pm
In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul 寻找林昭的灵魂, 2004
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Hu Jie 胡杰           
Mandarin with English subtitles, 116 min.
This film pieces together the life, path of resistance, and death of Lin Zhao, a fearless critic of the Communist Party during the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–59.
Friday, December 1, 2 pm
Storm under the Sun 红日风暴, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Peng Xiaolian 彭小莲 and S. Louisa Wei 魏时煜
Mandarin and English with English subtitles, 137 min.
Animation, archival footage, and interviews depict the persecution of Hu Feng, a renowned writer and literary critic who championed artistic freedom and was denounced and jailed during one of Mao Zedong’s purges of intellectuals in the 1950s.
Saturday, December 2, 12 pm
Falling from the Sky 天降, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Zhang Zanbo 张赞波
Mandarin and Hunan dialect with Chinese and English subtitles, 145 min.
Beneath the veneer of celebrations for the 2008 Olympic Games, the 160,000 residents of Suining are forced to face their peculiar fate of satellite debris falling from the sky.
Saturday, December 2, 2:30 pm
Plastic China 塑料王国, 2016
Directed by Wang Jiuliang 王久良
Mandarin with English subtitles, 82 min.
Saturday, December 2, 2:30 pm
Chronicling the lives of two families operating a plastic recycling facility, Plastic China examines global consumption and culture through the eyes and hands of those who handle its refuse.
Friday, December 8, 12 pm
Petition 上访, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Zhao Liang 赵亮
Mandarin with English subtitles, 315 min.
In this long-form documentary filmed over more than a decade, petitioners at Beijing South Railway Station Petition Office are confronted by contradictions in a system intended to protect citizens from legal injustice and political violation.
Saturday, December 9, 12 pm
Jiabiangou Elegy: Life and Death of the Rightists 夹边沟祭事, 2017
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Saturday, December 9, 12 pm
Directed by Ai Xiaoming 艾晓明
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 409 min.
Survivors of the Jiabiangou labor camp and their children recount the persecution of over three thousand people sent for re-education through labor during the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–59.
Friday, December 15, 12 pm
The Road 大路朝天, 2015
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Zhang Zanbo 张赞波
Mandarin and Hunan dialect with Chinese and English subtitles, 94 min.
The construction of the Xu-Huai Highway in Hunan province has laid the landscape and many historical and cultural sites to waste. As this miracle of modern engineering takes shape, it offers an apt allegory for the dreams of a nation.
Friday, December 15, 1:35 pm
Silver City 白银, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Li Peifeng 李沛峰
Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, 98 min.
Residents of a rural village along the West-East Gas Pipeline project are removed, by force and deceit, from the land that has sheltered them for generations.
Saturday, December 16, 12 pm 
Dream Walking 梦游, 2005 (US premiere)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Huang Wenhai 黄文海
Mandarin with English subtitles, 86 min.
Four artists living on the margins of society whose passionate discussions belie their impoverished living conditions struggle with the uncertainty of their lives and artistic identities.
Saturday, December 16, 1:30 pm
Disturbing the Peace 老妈蹄花, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Ai Weiwei 艾未未
Mandarin with English subtitles, 80 min.
Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, activist Tan Zuoren was arrested for investigating the deaths of thousands of children who died when government-built school buildings collapsed. Ai Weiwei, also investigating the situation, was invited to testify at Tan’s trial and subsequently suffered police harassment that culminated in a beating that caused cranial trauma. This film records Ai and his lawyers as they repeatedly travel to Chengdu to seek an explanation from the authorities.
Fairytale 童话, 2007
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Directed by Ai Weiwei 艾未未
Mandarin with English subtitles, 153 min.
In 2007 Ai Weiwei invited 1,001 people from China to travel to Kassel, Germany, as part of a participatory event for Documenta 12. Fairytale opens with the project’s inception and takes us through its full enactment, creating a series of portraits woven together by a single utopian event.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
by denton.2 at osu.edu on November 10, 2017
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