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Screening: Kun 1 Action (2008)
Wu Haohao's independent documentary, Kun 1 Action will be screened at Harvard University.
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A young DV auteur out of Shanxi Province whose provocations have earned him the nickname "Little Godard" in China's independent documentary circles, Wu Haohao's Kun 1 Action is a boldly experimental work. In what the filmmaker calls a “quasi-religious tribute” to his childhood crush, Liang Kun, he weaves philosophical musings on revolutionary politics into the mundane fabric of his experiences in film school. Through the frequent appearance of his directorial signatures—uninhibited self-reflexivity, confrontational engagements with his subjects, inventive and irreverent voiceover narration—Kun 1 Action reveals Wu’s eccentricity and the provocative terrain he has carved out for himself in the Chinese documentary scene with his "action cinema" (xingdong dianying) aesthetics.
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