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Red Art . . . a Documentary
A screening of the documentary, Red Art, followed by a talk with co-director, Hu Jie.
When:
November 5, 2008 12:00am
Where
Where:
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2250 Public Policy Building
UCLA
Running Time: 70 mins
Subtitles: English / Chinese
Year of Production: 2007
Director: HU JIE and AI XIAOMING
Cinematography: Hu Jie and Ai Xiaoming
Production Design: Huang Haitao
Editing: Hu Jie
Synopsis
Red Art delves into the posters during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and how they were used as a propaganda. To uncover the meaning of the posters, it interviews former painters and Red Guards, and researchers and collectors at home and abroad.
Red Art is the second documentary after the documentary makers' Painting for the Revolution: The Peasants Painters of Hu County, which documents how folk art was transformed by political campaigns, and records the artists’ memories of this unusual period of history.
In 2002, his documentary, The Wedding of Yan Zhen, won Best Editing Prize at Chinese Young Filmmakers Festival held by Hongkong Phoenix TV. The year 2003 saw Remote Mountain selected by "Independent Documentaries of China" Film Festival in France. In 2004, Folk Songs on the Plain was selected by "Art and Individual Identity of the East and the West" show in Bonn, Germany. He participated in the establishment of Digital Video Studio of Sex/Gender Education Forum at Sun Yat-sen University as artist-in-residence since 2004.
HU Jie has had his documentaries shown in SUN Yat-sen University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Westminster and University of Oxford in the U.K.since 2005.
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