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dGenerate’s Films and Filmmakers Showcased in Get It Louder Series
by Sara Beretta Get It Louder (Da Sheng Zhan), one of China’s hottest showcases for emerging creative talent, opened in Beijing last September 19th, and will run through October 10th before moving to...
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Blurring the Boundaries Between Art and Film in China
Meishi Street (dir. Ou Ning) By Sara Beretta Everyone, in a sense, is an artist, in that we all strive to better express ourselves. As bricoleurs, we all do our best to depict our thought, wishes and...
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Olympic Artist Ai Weiwei the Latest in China’s Long List of Evictees
Artist Ai Weiwei (source: Archinect) By Isabella Tianzi Cai Chinese architect and artist Ai Weiwei, designer of the famous “Bird’s Nest” Olympic Stadium in Beijing, and whose current “Sunflower Seeds”...
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dGenerate Titles now available on Objective Cinema
By Isabella Tianzi Cai Three dGenerate films are now available on Objective Cinema, a newly launched online platform for select social- and political-themed films. The films are Ban Zhongyi’s Gai...
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CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Ou Ning
By Dan Edwards Ou NIng In addition to being an artist, curator, writer, and director of the Shao Foundation, China’s cultural renaissance man Ou Ning is also an acclaimed documentary filmmaker. After...
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Beijing Demolition for Subway Sprawl Provokes Resistance
By Kevin B. Lee Demolition Dominates the Residents of Beijing in "Meishi Street" In China Beat, Jared Hall reports on the spate of public protests that have been prevalent throughout the expansion of...
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Ou Ning Programs Chinese Documentary Series in Countryside
By Ou Ning The following is a translation of an announcement from the Bishan Harvestival found on artist/curator/filmmaker Ou Ning’s Weibo feed. It is translated by Isabella Tianzi Cai. The Bishan...
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Ai Weiwei on Beijing, a “Nightmare” of a City
By Isabella Tianzi Cai The Olympic Stadium in Beijing, designed by Ai Weiwei in the city he now calls "a nightmare" In his essay posted on The Daily Beast on August 28, 2010, artist Ai Weiwei rants...
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Micro-Dispatches from Film Directors on Weibo, China’s Twitter
A number of film directors whose titles we distribute have accounts on Weibo, the Chinese microblog comparable to Twitter. We looked through these accounts for interesting messages. The following were...
View ArticleMeishi Street Reviewed in Senses of Cinema
In the online journal Senses of Cinema, Luke Robinson reviews the documentary Meishi Street (directed by Ou Ning) which will screen this weekend at the Melbourne International Film Festival, as part of...
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