Shanghai Panic
- Mon 30 Sept 6.30 pm
- Thurs 3 Oct 8.30 pm
- Dir: Andrew Cheng Australia/China 2001 colour Video 87 mins
Adapted from the novel We are Panic by Mian Mian, in a hilarious performance as divorced writer Kika, Shanghai Panic is Slackers with Chinese characteristics in glittering Shanghai. Pretty face Bei is the source of the panic. "I think I have AIDS," he mutters. It turns out to be false alarm but soon other panics, older and more enduring, surface. Shot in quasi-documentary style with bold camera movements and energised editing, the video sums up the madness of a city hell-bent on revitalising its past glories.The slow motion sequence on the Bund delivers a mesmerising, drugged and alienating effect, as if to remind us that "all that glitters is not gold".
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