Asian Pop-Up Cinema | RIPPLES OF LIFE 永安镇故事集 | China

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Shujun Wei

STARRING: Yang Zishan, Huang Miyi, Liu Yang, Kang Chunlei

FILM SOURCE: Rediance

Admission Free.  RSVP is required.

SYNOPSIS:

Swiftly delivering on the promise of his freewheeling, semi-autobiographical debut feature Striding Into the Wind (2020), Director Wei returns with a dexterous rumination on the pursuit of authenticity. Divided into three chapters, it revolves around the production of a highbrow film in a remote town and courts comparison with the meta-comedies of Hong Sang-soo. Despite his openly acknowledged art-house influences, Wei is very much developing his own idiosyncratic sensibility.

RIPPLES OF LIFE sees the fledgling auteur continuing to draw candidly on his own immediate experiences while questioning the role of cinema in an increasingly fragmented Chinese society.

ABOUT ASIAN POP-UP CINEMA

Presented by Sophia’s Choice, Asian Pop-Up Cinema (亞洲躍動電影展) (APUC), is a bi-annual Asian film festival in Chicago, providing a platform for specially curated Asian films in their original languages with English subtitles.

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