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Digital technology has taken center stage at the cultural and sports sections at the ongoing China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, where these digital exhibitions attract thousands of visitors every day.
Most accounts of the last year in Chinese cinema are dominated by films that were made for the ever-expanding domestic box office, and the local film industry’s struggle for screen time in competition with Hollywood imports. On the one hand, we read about Back to 1942, an historical epic about a bygone Chinese famine and the latest would-be blockbuster from perennial hit maker
Yang Mingming, an employee of a company based in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, has decided to stay in the city instead of returning to his hometown around 1,500 km away in northwest China's Shaanxi Province to celebrate the coming Spring Festival. To reduce the flow of personnel and curb the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, many places across China have encouraged residents and migrant workers to stay put for the most important festival in China usually marked by mass migration and family reunions. "It's the first time I choose to spend the festival away from my family," ...
El Planeta (2021) Amalia Ulman, El Planeta, 2021, DCP, black-and-white, sound, 79 minutes. Leonor and María (Amalia Ulman and Ale Ulman). EL PLANETA, billed as “a comedy about eviction” and the first feature film by artist Amalia Ulman, is loosely based on the real-life Spanish mother-daughter petty-crime duo Justina and Ana Belén. Arrested in 2012, the penniless yet elegant pair posed as wealthy ladies and scammed countless restauranteurs and shop-owners—who’d trusted the apparently well-heeled women to eventually settle their bill—out of thousands of euros. In El Planeta,...