AFA Screening: MFJ 63 “Exchanges & Convergences"

Filmmaker FANG LU will attend the screening in person!

In concert with her article, “Video Bureau, A Report from China,” published in the most recent issue of the Millennium Film Journal No.63 “Exchanges & Convergences (Spring 2016), Ellen Zweig has curated this special one-program survey of Chinese video art, including work from China and Taiwan. Beginning with Chen Tong’s DON’T LET YOUR EYES DECEIVE YOU, a humorous exploration of what it means to create an institution, and including works by Fang Lu, Li Xiaofei, Zhou Tao, and others, the selection represents a wide-range of styles, from documentary to performance video.

Based in Beijing and Guangzhou, Video Bureau is an artist-run not-for-profit organization focused on archiving video artworks and related material including writings, images, proposals, and installation plans, in order to build a database for researchers, writers, students, artists, and collectors.

Selected and presented by Millennium Film Journal senior editor Grahame Weinbren and Ellen Zweig.

Total running time: ca. 95 min.

Anthology Film Archive Film Notes

This program is partially funded by NYSCA through the Millennium Film Workshop, affiliated with Millennium Film Journal. A big thank you to the Video Bureau.