"Situation Room" Film Screening
Storefront for Art and Architecture
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Michelangelo Antonioni's 1972 documentary Chung Kuo is a rare and epic depiction of China as a nation caught on the cusp of massive, far-reaching transformation. When screened at the Venice Film Festival in 1974, this stark yet ultimately sympathetic portrait sparked off a diplomatic incident and was denounced by the Chinese government as a vicious act of anti-Chinese propaganda. (The Party had approved and supervised/surveilled the 8-week shooting, but Antonioni deployed secret cameras at various points to shoot un-preapproved locations.)
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March 21, 2009 from 19:00