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SAN YUAN LI

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  • Dir. Ou Ning, Cao Fei | 2003 | 45 mins.
  • Wednesday 9th February 2005 6.30 pm (Khalili Lecture Theatre)
This black-and-white cine-poem is a case study of a typical village-amid-the-city phenomenon in the process of the urbanization of Guangzhou in booming Southern China. It was produced by Ou Ning and Cao Fei under the commission from the 50th Venice Biennale.The documentary samples San Yuan Li Village, the crew passing through it in the manner of Walter Benjamin’s ‘flaneur in the city’.

They explore the depths of its history as the site where local Chinese allegedly resisted British opium merchants in the nineteenth century, as well as the tensions and negotiations between the process of modernization and the patriarchal clan system, as well as the rural community system in Guangdong.

PLUS at 7.30 – 9.00 pm, a Talk by Professor Lu Xinyu on the Chinese
New Documentary Movement (Simultaneous interpretation by Chris Berry).

Professor Lu Xinyu teaches in the School of Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai.A prolific author on media topics, she is best know for her ground-breaking recent book, Documentary China, on the New Documentary Movement in the People’s Republic.

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