Li Ning introduces his film TAPE

Tape will screen at the 2011 MoMA Documentary Fortnight. Details at http://dgeneratefilms.com/chinese-cinema-events/moma-documentary-fortnight-op...

About TAPE:


With groundbreaking honesty, performance artist Li Ning turns his life into art in this epic work of experimental documentary.
For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern life in China. He is caught between two families: his wife, son and mother, whom he can barely support; and his enthusiastic but disorganized guerilla dance troupe. Li's chaotic life becomes inseparable from the act of taping it, as if his experiences can only make sense on screen. Tape shatters documentary conventions, utilizing a variety of approaches, including guerilla documentary, experimental street video, even CGI. Much like Jia Zhangke's Platform, Tape captures a decade's worth of artistic aspirations and failures, while breaking new ground in individual expression in China.

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