The High Life opens with a raw contrast of poetics and imprisonment that can be glimpsed throughout the film, as a female inmate in a bleak correction facility reads aloud the verses of Officer Dian Qiu to a table of inmates folding cellophane flowers as part of their forced labor.
My Father’s House explores the booming African community in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou through the turbulent story of an underground church founded by Nigerian missionary Daniel Michael Enyeribe, called by a “vision” to go to China and begin a new life there. Completed in 2011, My Father’s House had its world premiere at … Continue reading
A policeman locks himself and an mélange of willing characters into an iron cage situated in a dim and cavernous warehouse. Conversations haltingly unfold among the characters, until finally the policeman decides to open up and share his dog-eared book of personal poetry with his fellow inmates.
Street Life documents the lives of Chinese migrants in Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities, now symbolic of China’s economic might. The film centers on Nanjing Road, one of China’s oldest commercial streets and today a popular destination for tourists and moneyed Chinese. The street has also become a Mecca for … Continue reading
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