Exploding Cinema: New Dragon Inns
Overview of films
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18 Days
Xu Zhen | 24' | China | None
A boyish prank but also clearly a politically motivated performance. An artist attacks a neighbouring country. -
77
Shu Li-Ting | 5' | Taiwan | None
A sweetly jumping girl. But the female film maker doesn’t want to make a sweet film. That’s precisely the problem. -
Black Air
Apichatpong Weerasethekul (advisor), Pimpaka Towira, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr, Koichi Shimizu | Thailand | World premiere
Interactive installation. Two spaces. A light space with sounds. A dark space with images. Hundreds of buttons can be used to change the sound or… -
Crazy Man
Zhang Ding | 60' | China | None
In the evening a strange man performs a kind of ritual for himself in a square. The film maker sees a performance artist in the… -
Crude Oil
Wang Bing | 840' | China | World premiere
Wang Bing headed for a plateau in the Gobi desert to show just how much China needs oil at the moment. Just how hard they… -
Fengming, a Chinese Memoir
Wang Bing | 186' | China | None
Intense documentary about the ageing journalist He Fengming who tells the sad but fascinating story of her life. Oral history in its most pure, effect -
Hero
Thaweesak Srithongdee | 22' | Thailand | European premiere
Crooks, criminals and dictators can also be heroes in the ironic approach of the artist. Or maybe everything just blends together. -
History of Chemistry 1 & 2
Lu Chun Sheng | 124' | China | None
The film is not about history or chemistry. An artist re-invented film making and indulges in an imagined portrayal of non-existent stories. Funny, co -
i-Mirror
Cao Fei | 28' | China | None
Artist adopted the persona of a pretty young woman in Second Life. In the Internet world she became involved in a relationship with a man… -
Is It a Dream?
Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | None
A film maker dreams about a cinema and sees his loved ones from childhood. That childhood and the loved ones cannot be brought back, but… -
Krasob
Nitipong Thinthupthai | 8' | Thailand | European premiere
It seems idyllic: Thai children playing with a bag of rice as a boxing bag. But they know they can also kick each other. -
Middle-Earth
Thunska Pansittivorakul | 8' | Thailand | European premiere
A white dream of a gay film maker. Two naked men on a white sofa. Yet it remains in the imagination.