1428

1428 will be screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

As part of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’“Fearless” series, 1428 will be playing April 14th. 1428 premiered in the U.S. in the 2010 Documentary Fortnight Festival at MoMA New York, won the Best Documentary Award at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival, and won Los Angeles Film Festival’s “2010 Best of the Fest”.  Du Haibin delivers a vision of human devastation that is “fascinating, beautifully crafted” (Ronnie Scheib, Variety).

The film observes the aftermath of the Great Sichuan Earthquake that took place on May 12, 2008, and left 70,000 dead and 375,000 injured. Du Haibin reveals video unavailable through official channels and examines the prominence of media and consumerism in contemporary China; shocking footage shows tourists buying DVDs of the resulting destruction and souvenir albums of fresh corpses.

Tickets for the screening are $7 for general admission and $5 for seniors, students, and teachers. Gallery admission is included in ticket price. Tickets can be purchased online here. For directions and more detailed pricing information, visit the YBCA website.

YBCA’s “Fearless” series is a collection of the most compelling, politically engaged documentary cinema in the world right now is coming from China. Totally under the radar, with low/no budgets and little/no hope of their work being shown in their own country, filmmakers are using inexpensive digital technology to tell stories that would never otherwise be told. This is not easy stuff — the films tend to be long, and often depict human rights abuses, stories of chaos and neglect, and of state-sanctioned deception. It is a deeply committed cinema, which expects no less from the viewer.