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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 THE UNDERGROUND ROCK AND ROLL IN CHINA, 4PM DIRECTED BY ZHANG BO $7 ($5 Walker Members) Through imitation and amalgamation, a new music scene has emerged in Beijing. This film documents the ups and downs of making music in a culture that has been recently flooded with every style of global sounds. 2002, China, color, video, in Mandarin with English subtitles, 93 minutes. LECTURE/SCREENING: INTRODUCING ZKM CENTER FOR ART AND MEDIA, 6 PM Free The ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a contemporary art museum and media center dedicated to interactive art. Exhibition director Sabine Himmelsbach discusses ZKM's mediatheque, its in-house projects and role as a production space with an artist-in-residence program, and the exhibitions net_condition. art/politics in the online universe and Future Cinema. Program length 90 minutes. MNARTISTS.ORG SPECIAL EVENT, 7:30-11 PM GALLERY 8 RESTAURANT Free RESCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5. ELEGY OF A VOYAGE, 8 PM DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER SOKUROV $7 ($5 Walker Members)  In this spiritual filmic journey, Sokurov traverses the snowy landscapes of Europe. "A tour de force of movement, right down to the micro-undulation that gives the screen the aspect of tremulous living tissue" (Artforum). 2001, Russia/France/The Netherlands, video, in Russian with English subtitles, 47 minutes. with DOLCE DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER SOKUROV Miho Shimao, widow of well-known Japanese poet Toshio Shimao, is the subject of this intense meditation on grieving and love. Using vertical framing, Sokurov captures the internal space of the paneled Japanese home; he also finds unexpected joy in Miho's tentative nostalgic smiles and catharsis through a tumultuous storm. 1999, Russia/Japan, video, in Russian and Japanese with English subtitles, 60 minutes.
TEENAGE HOOKER BECAME KILLING MACHINE IN DAEHAKROH, 10 PM DIRECTED BY NAM KI-WOONG $7 ($5 Walker Members) This lively, ultra low-budget film is closer to George Kuchar's 1960s shorts than John Waters' camp-schlock. Its basic gambit is brutal but brilliant: to cross a rape-revenge film (à la Abel Ferrara) with Robocop, thus delivering a grungy, histrionic version of post-feminist justice. Nam Ki-woong's stylization is expedient and inspired. 2000, South Korea, color, video, in Korean with English sub-titles, 60 minutes.
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