Night of an Era

Sheng Zhimin's Night of an Era will be screened at the Echo Park Film Center.

Night Of An Era is part of the multi-venue series Between Disorder and Unexpected Pleasures: Tales from the New Chinese Cinema. “Cui Jian, Dou Wei, Tang Dynasty: these legendary musicians created the Chinese independent rock movement of the 80s. Some, like the pioneering artist Ke, died in their early twenties. Others must now survive in a different world, subjected to a new reality of unbridled capitalism, piracy and changing popular tastes. Sheng Zhimin’s first documentary, after the critical success of Bliss is a paean to the music and spirit of that era, as well as a reminder that, despite adversity, Chinese rock lives on!” – Hong Kong International Film Festival. Sheng Zhimin (born 1969) became involved in film in the early 1990s, and worked as a line producer, screenwriter and assistant director for Zhang Yang’s Spicy Love Soup (1997), Jia Zhangke’s Platform (2000), Fruit Chan’s Durian, Durian (2000) and Public Toilet (2002). His first film, Two Hearts (2003), was shown at the Berlinale.His second feature, Bliss (2006), won the NETPAC Award in Locarno.