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Purple Curtain

Purple Curtain

Zi Mu

Ma Qiusha | China | 2004 | 5' |

| IFFR 2006

On a stage surrounded only by women’s legs, this man should feel like a child in a toy shop. But his face remains expressionless while he slowly reconnoitres the terrain. A mysterious clay animation.

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