Crossing Festival 2010
21 September to 8 October, 2010 Support£º
Curators: Wu Wenguang, Wen Hui Memory and the Act of Remembering In 2010, Caochangdi Workstation is having its 6th annual Crossing Festival. As usual, it features a ¡®crossing¡¯ of performance art and documentary, a crossing of art and reality, of different forms of expression, or even different ideas and philosophies. So what¡¯s so special about the Crossing Festival today? ¡°Memory¡± has become the main theme. Two years ago (in 2008), Living Dance Studio performed an 8-hour piece called Memory, touching on the artists¡¯ experiences growing up in the 60s and early 70s in China. But this act of remembering didn¡¯t end with that performance piece, and instead continued onto a different topic, with more people joining in. The content of this new project focuses on the Great Famine from 1959-1961. The first task was to record interviews with ordinary people who experienced the famine, letting them tell their stories. All the collected and edited materials form the initial content for these ¡°Folk Memory Video Files¡±. During this year¡¯s festival, there will be a ¡°Memory Room¡± displaying all these narratives that have been collected from the people. Apart from this, the Crossing Festival will also feature a performance piece called Memory 2: Famine. Participants of the ¡°Folk Memory¡± project will walk upon the stage with the videos collected from the countless elderly who lived through that history, allowing these elderly to reconnect with their memories of 50 years ago, onstage. Also related to Memory will be the New Works in Documentary screenings, titled ¡°Me and My Memories¡±. All screened documentary films will bear themes of ¡®memories¡¯ or ¡®seeking memory¡¯. Zhou Xueping¡¯s film Starving Village records the last two years of her grandmother¡¯s life, as well as the stories of 15 other elderly people who lived through the Great Famine. In Zhang Mengqi¡¯s film Self Portrait With Three Women, her search for herself leads her down a path of memory that stretches on to her mother and grandmother. Wang Chong, Zhang Yuan and Fang Fang are three young choreographers whose works were featured at the May Festival as part of the Young Choreographers¡¯ Workshop. They¡¯ve now continued on through the Creative Development Process, and will present their newly reworked pieces again. Also continuing with the New Stage, New Creation Project, Er Gao and Lian Guodong are once again presenting their newest pieces. We will also be joined by two film programs from abroad for our festival. One of them is Swiss documentary filmmaker Christian Frei. We will be screening four of his films, two of which also touch on the idea of Memory. Christian will also host a 5-day documentary workshop, in which 8 young documentary filmmakers will bring in-process films to work on. During the workshop, Christian Frei will lead these and other young filmmakers in a process of discussing and breaking down the specifics of filmmaking. Christian Frei joins us as the 5th filmmaker in a series of partnerships with Swiss Films, bringing filmmakers such as Peter Liechti, Edna Politi, Fernand Melgar, and Vadim Jendreyko. The other program is from Tampere Film Festival. it consists of three different subjects of short films which show particularities of Tampere Film Festival. Text by Wu Wenguang (translated by Marilyn Mai) >>Schedule of Crossing Festival 2010 << >>Young Choreographers' Works << |
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