Do Donkeys Know Politics

Los Angeles, CA | 2017 | 4 | 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:Xie Sichong

Description

“In this video, I have used a documentary approach to archive my family history. This project is a form of ‘exercising/re-drawing’ memory, which in turn produces new identities. I want to recreate a particular donkey illustration my grandfather drew. During the Cultural Revolution, my grandfather was punished for such a drawing. After my grandfather drew this illustration, the Chinese government put him in prison in Xi’an for two years and forced my grandmother to divorce him. Memory becomes glue holding three of us together. Could these drawings be the past and future? Is it be-coming or de-coming?” – XS