Synopsis

Artists of Yuanmingyuan (1995)
Enter the 1990s—the dawn of the age of market economics in China. Many artists became freelance professionals. These individuals, operating outside of the official system, gathered in an area of Beijing near the Yuanmingyuan ruins. Some people considered their paintings incomprehensible, and their work unsettled the government and the police. In 1994, the artists were forced to give up their community.

Director: Hu Jie
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Post-Sense Sensibility: Alien Bodies & Delusion (1999)
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Art for Sale (1999)
On the eve of the twenty-first century, mainstream ideology in China remained sceptical of contemporary art, which had begun to show hints of commercialisation in the context of globalisation. A group of young artists, fresh from university, decided to try a different strategy: they staged a series of guerrilla-style exhibitions. Post-Sense Sensibility: “Alien Bodies & Delusion”, in Beijing, and “Art for Sale”, in Shanghai, were two major examples of their approach. As a participant in and a documentarian of these exhibitions, Kan Xuan uses her innate subjectivity to portray the major figures and events.

Director: Kan Xuan
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The Dusk of Teheran
In Iran, women must wear headscarves, and female singers cannot perform in public. Chinese artist Tao Hui invites an Iranian woman to re-enact an emotional monologue from Hong Kong Pop legend Anita Mui's farewell tour.

Director: Tao Hui
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