Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema--Memory Project [China]--"No Land"

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema--Memory Project [China]--"No Land"

Film Screening:

No Land 

(Zhang Ping, 2015, 40 min, China, in Chinese w/English subtitles, Color, Digital)

-- Discussion to follow with filmmaker Zhang Ping!

 

 

 

No Land is a documentary about an old man in a deserted mountain village, digging a grave for himself. He is the filmmaker Zhang Ping's father, an anti-socialist opposing the Communist Party. He had a promising job in the city but was sent to the rural area for eighteen years and then retired as a laborer. When he was seventy, the privatization of factories made him return to the countryside again. Now in his eighties, he is preparing for his own decease.

About the filmmaker:

Zhang Ping was born in Hunan, in 1977. She is a writer, painter and filmmaker, and a participant in the Memory Project in 2013. She completed her first documentary, No Land, in 2015.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: Presented by Duke University Libraries; co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Art (MFA|EDA), and Center for Documentary Studies (CDS).

Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater