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Beijing, China | 2018 | 12 | 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:Xing Danwen

Description

In this new work, Xing examines the complexity of communication and connection between people and the relation of “love.” The artist and her mother serve as the main characters. On one screen are the aged hands of the mother, insistently knitting a dress with love and care, and on the other, the daughter wears the dress as it unravels with her movement. A feeling of liberation is evoked as the daughter’s body slowly becomes exposed, fragile and vulnerable. The daughter is trapped in the thread, but she moves forward with an uncontrolled drive. Although the two actions are separate and seem contradictory, the viewer senses a complicity between mother and daughter, as if they share an unspoken, secret understanding.