Between Disorder and Unexpected Pleasures: Tales from the New Chinese Cinema

In recent years, independent Chinese cinema has experienced a virtual explosion. Digital media have allowed filmmakers to be bolder, more daring and to explore hybrid forms of documentary and fiction, or mix found and live footage while playing with novel formal strategies. Independent Chinese cinema has also come of age. Reaching beyond nostalgia and social protest, it plumbs surprising corners of Chinese reality with humor that is at times light, dark, saucy, dry, raunchy or conceptual. Expect the unexpected.

The Archive is pleased present two programs from this two-week series devoted to new independent Chinese cinema unfolding at venues throughout Los Angeles between April 6-22. Please visit www.redcat.org for complete series details. 

Curated by Cheng-Sim Lim and Bérénice Reynaud.

Special thanks to: UCLA Confucius Institute.

All films in Putonghua with English subtitles.