Dance with Third Grandma

Yunnan, China | 2015 | 15 | DCP

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Special Program - Becoming Myself
Screening Room - Michigan Theater Fri, Mar 29, 2019 5:00 PM
A 15 minute Q&A with filmmakers in attendance will follow the screening.
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Wen Hui

Description

“Since I finished the documentary film Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories in 2011, I wanted to transform it onto the stage. In 2012, I went back to the village where my third grandma lived and rehearsed with her. This short video work analyzes the rational of ‘forgetting’ and ‘being forgotten,’ ‘why do we forget?,’ and ‘why is it forgotten?’ These are all the reasons that I went to search for the existence of my third grandmother. Why do we dance? I want to use her story and her destiny to reflect upon our own dilemmas nowadays, as painful as it is peeling off the skins.” – WH