China Onscreen Biennial

Monday, October 20, 2014 to Friday, October 24, 2014

China Onscreen Biennial

Cong Feng: Stratum 1. Photo courtesy the artist.

Leslie Tai: The Private Life of Fenfen. Photo courtesy the artist.

Geng Yi: BARKING. Photo courtesy the artist.

Wang Haolin: Erdos Rider. Photo courtesy the artist.

Yang Mingming: Female Directors. Photo courtesy the artist.

Fan Popo: The Vachina Monologues. Photo courtesy the artist.

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“a rumination on ruins and the transformative roles of space and place in contemporary China.” – Yunfest

Co-presented with the UCLA Confucius Institute

Presented as part of the Jack H. Skirball Series

REDCAT is one of several L.A. venues for this three-week survey of voices that make China such a dynamic film and media environment. The biennial’s program ranges from the latest internationally-lauded auteur films to crowd-pleasing homages to major figures of Chinese cinema to experimental media. The Oct. 21 "Wild Women" program presents an array of women who disagree, with a good sense of humor, with the Confucian mold. On Oct. 24 the documentary-narrative mash-up of Barking (2013, West Coast Premiere) rounds out the Spectrum shorts, its roving camera ranging across a trash-dump world of migrants and stray dogs in the Beijing outskirts.

The China Onscreen Biennial is presented with the UCLA Confucius Institute in partnership with REDCAT, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, AFI FEST, and Pomona College.

The program at REDCAT is curated by Cheng-Sim Lim and Bérénice Reynaud.