The Secret of Supermoon/Canton Novelty

Double Feature | 48 min / 25 min | English with Chinese Subtitles / Chinese with English Subtitles

Showings

State Theatre - Theatre 1 Sun, Oct 28, 2018 4:00 PM
Presented by the Confucius Institute of U-M; Free and open to the public!
Event Info
Category:Films
State Films
Electric Shadows: Contemporary Chinese Film Series
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Description

Sunday, October 28 at 4:00 PM at the State Theatre. Part of the "Electric Shadows" film series presented by the Confucius Institute at U-M. Free and open to the public!

The Secret of Super Moon (2015) is a short film of interviews, a few women talking about how they remember their previous relationships. These immensely personal and feminine narratives were brought into an insulated interior space, interweaved with each other to form a fictional time and space. Watch the trailer. (English with Chinese subtitles, 48 min). Canton Novelty (2016) is a work about “creating” miracles in our everyday life. Ruohan, Lily and Zoe are close friends. They are spending their summer vacation together in the southern city of China, Guangzhou. They document their vacation time with their cell phones while they discover they have super-power. (Chinese with English subtitles, 25 min)

About Director Fang Lu

A graduate of the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Arts, Director Fang Lu’s work has been featured in many group exhibitions such as the 28 Chinese in Rubell Family Collection Museum in Miami, China 8 in Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, My Generation in Tampa Museum, On/Off in Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing, Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial. She is the co-founder of Video Bureau, an independent video archive resource in Beijing and Guangzhou.p>

About Electric Shadows

Curated by Fang Zhang, CIUM’s annual film series “Electric Shadow” for the fall 2018 presents the most celebrated Chinese artists’ thought-provoking films. Six films will be screened starting on October 7, every Sunday (except for October 14).