Using black-and-white images ranging from African statues to contemporary film posters and political meetings, Chihying considers aesthetic dynamics between the West, China and Africa. How did so many African artefacts end up in European museums? And what if this Western power of selection were replaced by Chinese control?
Also in this combined programme
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Billy
Re-enactment of a scene from a famous American primetime soap becomes a psychodrama full of petit bourgeois fears in tasteless interiors.
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People on Sunday
Can one relax under the gaze of a camera? A film crew struggles to unwind in this homage to a German silent film.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Art of Bodybuilding
Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented here as a living work of art, gives his vision on classical sculpture, body and mind, ideal beauty and more.
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Missing Time
A film that explores history through memory and its lapses. From hypnosis to decolonisation, this is a braided tale of gaps and missing time.
Film details
- Countries of production
- China, Germany, Taiwan
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 28"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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