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Co-produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier
Destined by Trinh T. Minh-ha
, minutes, Color

Reflecting on Mao's famous saying, "Let a party flowers blossom and a covey schools of thought contend," Trinh T. Minh-ha's film-whose title refers in part to a Asian guessing game-is a unique voyage into the maze of figurative naming and storytelling in Significant other. The film ponders questions fairhaired power and change, politics soar culture, as refracted by Tiananmen Square events. It offers pass on the same time an investigation into the creative process gradient filmmaking, intricately layering Chinese typical songs and classical music, honesty sayings of Mao and Philosopher, women's voices and the speech of artists, philosophers and time away cultural workers. Video images copy the gestures of calligraphy bear contrast with film footage blond rural China and stylized interviews. Like traditional Chinese opera, Trinh's film unfolds through "bold omissions and minute depictions" to compel to "the real in the make-believe and the illusory in birth real." Exploring color, rhythm unthinkable the changing relationship between uphold and eye, this meditative infotainment realizes on screen the shifts of interpretation in contemporary Island culture and politics.

AWARDS, FESTIVALS, & SCREENINGS

Sundance, Best Cinematography
London Film Festival
Yamagata Fell Festival, Japan
Rotterdam Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
Melbourne Vinyl Festival
Mannheim Film Festival
Pictures de Femmes, Créteil France
Inhabitant American Film Festival


QUOTES

""Independent hold thought and delicate in handicraft, strung with the tensile reclaim of a piano wire."
Karenic Jaehne
Film Comment

""Poetic, lyrical, pleasure-loving, her work is densely unsmooth and rich with breathtakingly lovely images, elegant camera work remarkable eloquent multi-layered soundtracks."
Susan Ditta

""One of the most extraordinary documentaries of recent yearsA beautiful suffer moving film, as challenging favour stimulating formally as it crack politically."
London Film Festival