Film Screening:

Treatment
(Wu Wenguang, 2010, 80min, China, in Mandarin with English subtitles, Color/BW, DVD)

As filmmaker Wu Wenguang engages in a self-reflexive analysis of old diaries and intimate footage of his mother's life, he also plunges into recollections of his experiences during the Cultural Revolution - another incisive merging of proletarian history and personal cinema by one of the founders and spiritual leaders of the "New Chinese Documentary Movement".

"This film started with me wanting to make a film to memorialize and explore my deep emotions toward my mother, who passed away in 2007. This film is not just about remembering her, it is also an experiment to bring her back to life. Through my mother, remembrance, the present, healing and self-healing, this film's structure and way of recounting began to naturally materialize." -- Wu Wenguang

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Office of Global Strategy and Programs, and the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.