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Film/Video
NEW ASIAN CURRENTS
U.S. PREMIERE
BUNDLED (WO JIAO A-MING-LA)
DIRECTED BY SINGING CHEN
THURSDAY,
APRIL 26, 2001,
7:30 PM
$7; $6 SENIORS/STUDENTS WITH CURRENT ID;
$5 WALKER AND UNIVERSITY
FILM SOCIETY (UFS) MEMBERS WITH MEMBERSHIP CARD
AUDITORIUM
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While wandering around a recycling depot, a homeless man finds a video camera
with a tape still inside it. Captivated by its images of a happy family,
he decides to claim the family as his own and tells his tale to the surreal
collection of people he meets throughout his daily life. Most of the characters
in Singing Chen's unusual and delicate debut film are dreamers, drifters,
and derelicts--homeless people and misfits sleeping in abandoned buildings
or under bridges, a strange old lady trading dreams, a young novelist assailed
by inner voices, a singer. Is this just a dream, a novel no one wants to
read, or a cruel true-life news story? 2000, Taiwan, in Taiwanese and Mandarin
with English subtitles, 16mm, color, 75 minutes.
NEW ASIAN CURRENTS IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE
BUSH FOUNDATION. |