Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
415.978.2787
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Fengming: A Chinese Memoir
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Thursday Nov 6, 2008 (7pm)
Sunday Nov 9, 2008 (2pm)
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$8
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Wang Bing's newest documentary — a brutal indictment of the sanctioned authoritarianism of Mao's China — derives its power solely from the continuous confession of its courageous subject, a former journalist and teacher named Fengming, who was sent to a labor camp as part of the "anti-rightist" campaigns. Intensely intimate, Wang's film presents Fengming's remarkable survivor's tale mostly in real time, though occasionally illustrates her narrative with photos. The director's austere approach, while formally extreme, offers a respectful and radical alternative to documentary filmmaking's conventional reduction of its subject to one of a series of talking heads.
