Listening to Third Grandmother's Stories / Dance with Third Grandmother

Double Feature | Time TBD | Language TBD

Showings

State Theatre - Theatre 1 Sun, Nov 4, 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, November 4 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!

Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories (2011) and Dance with Third Grandmother (2015) are documentary-style interview films that recorded the stories of Wen Hui’s third grandmother. When Wen Hui visited her family’s hometown, a small village in Yunnan, on a project, she unexpectedly met her third grandmother. Spending time with her, Wen Hui listened to her stories of tragedy and hardships that she lived through the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution in China.

About Director Wen Hui

A graduate of Beijing Dancing Academy, Wen Hui is a renowned choreographer and dancer in China. She and Wu Wenguang, an independent film maker, co-founded China’s first independent dance theatre company “Life and Dance Studio” in Beijing in 1994. Her creativity, her theatre style, and Chinese daily life movements are weaved into many of her documentary films, attempting to depict conflicts and connections between memory and history.

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).