Movie Program [June
- August]
AAWAA Gallery • 136 15th
Street Brooklyn, NY 11215
Saturday,
June 17, 7PM
Hua
Hun (A Soul haunted by Painting)
114MIN.
/ English Subtitles
Chinese painter Pan
Yuliang was raised in a brothel and later rescued by
a man who fell in love and married her to be his concubine.
In this film biography, Pan is played by Gong Li who
beautifully captures the tension the artist felt as
she was dogged by her past and caught between traditional
Chinese culture and Western influences in her art.
Friday, June
23, 7PM
Monkey
made havocs in Heaven
Chinese animation for
neighborhood children.
Saturday,
June 24, 7PM
Seventeen
Years
ZHANG
YUAN / 85MIN. / English Subtitles
A young girl is convicted
of murder and sentenced to a long stay in Prison. After
17 years she is granted a special furlough for New Year.
Friday, June
30, 7PM
The
World of Mei Lanfang
MEI-JUIN
CHEN / 57MIN. / English Subtitles
A beautiful woman moves
demurely, but with a hint of seduction. This video reveals
the life and career of Mei Langang, who became an international
sensation for his prtrayal of women in Chinese Opera.
With rare archival footage.
Reservation required. If audience reaches 50,
a costumed performance by Chinese Opera star Alan Chow
will follow. Admission $10.
Saturday,
July 1, 7PM
Mao's
New Suit
SALLY
INGLETON / 51MIN. / English Subtitles
Two young Chinese women
designers are out to make their mark in the international
fashion industry. Their optimism shows the human face
of changing China.
Friday, July
7, 7PM
Hua
Hun (A Soul haunted by Painting)
114MIN.
/ English Subtitles
(see the event description
on Saturday, June 17.)
Saturday,
July 8, 7PM
Nu
Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China
YUE-QING
YANG / 59MIN. / English Subtitles
In Jian-yong
country in Hunan province, peasant women miraculously
developed a separate written language, called Nu Shu,
meaning "female writing." Believing women
to be inferior, men disregarded this new script, and
it remained unknown for centuries. It wasn't until the
1960s that Nu Shu caught the attention of Chinese authorities,
who suspected that this peculiar writing was a secreet
code for international espionage.
Friday, July
14, 7PM
Colonel
Jin Xing
SYLVIE
LEVEY, PASCAL VASSELIN AND ARNAUD HAMELIN / 52MIN. /
English Subtitles
Chinia;s Most Emblematic
Transsexual. An extraordinary portrait of a Chinese
ballet dancer who underwent one of the first sex change
operations in China to become a woman. She is now the
toast of the Chinese theater, despite having challenged
very traditional institutions.
Saturday,
July 15, 7PM
Reunion
KWON
YANG JA / 52MIN. / English Subtitles
During the Cultural
Revolution a daughter was giving up for adoption to
a farm family. Now, a parent herself, she journeys to
meet the father she never knew.
Friday, July
21 and Saturday, July 22 - Gallery Closed
Friday, July
28, 7PM
East
Wind West Wind: Pearl Buck
CRAIG
DAVIDSON AND DONN ROGOSIN / 90MIN. / English Subtitles
The extraordinary life
of Pearl Buck (1892-1973), the child of missionaries
who was raised in China and developed a deep affection
for the Chinese people. She became one of the most popular
American writers of the 20th Century, especially for
her best-selling novel, The Good Earth. Archival footage
and interviews provide unique insight into China in
the first half of the 20th Century.
Saturday,
July 29, 7PM
The
Emperor's Eye: Art and Power in Imperial China
LISA
HSIA / 58MIN. / English Subtitles
This spectacular film
brings to light the princeless treasures of China's
imperial art collection, relating them to the political
climate of their time. It also describes how the collection
survived both war and revolution in the 1930-40's.
Friday, August
4, 7PM
Chinese
Foot Binding: The Vanishing Lotus
TANG
YUEN, MEI JOANI AND FUNG WING CHUEN TELY / 52MIN. /
English Subtitles
A young girl's feet
were broken and bound inwards along the instep, a process
that caused excruciating pain. Systematically bound,
day after day, the stunted feet began to take on the
coveted look of that profoundly sensuous image, the
lotus bulb.
Saturday,
August 5, 7PM
Women
in China
INGER
ETZLER / PART I AND II: 50MIN. EACH
A two-part documentary
on the conditions of women in today's economically oriented
Chinese society. It visits four dicerse parts of China.
Friday, August
11, 7PM
Nu
Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China
YUE-QING
YANG / 59MIN. / English Subtitles
(see the event description
on Saturday July 18.)
Saturday,
August 12, 7PM
Sparrow
Village
CHRISTINE
CHOY/ 30MIN. / English Subtitles
In a rurall village
of southwestern China a bevy of young girls yearn for
an education. Their parents are poor and illiterate.
It is difficult for them to scrape together the money
to send their daughters to school in another village.
Beautifully photographed in the lush mountain greenery.
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Thursday, 1-6PM
Friday - Saturday, 6-10PM
Gallery closes on all public holidays, July 21, 22,
and Aug. 15 - Sept. 15, 2006
Filmakers Library:
124 E. 40th St. New York, NY 10016
e-mail: info@filmakers.com
• website: www.filmakers.com
This program is supported, in part,
by the Ford Foundation/BAC, New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs, and the Filmakers Library.
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