After 15 years of studying Chinese landscape painting, Guangdong-born documentarian Huang Weikai exchanged brush for DV in 2002; seeking to become a cartographer of truth through film and depict his precious Pearl River Delta as he truly saw it: explosive, deafening, filthy, and chaotically beautiful. This December, Spectacle is proud to host his essential diptych – FLOATING and DISORDER – twin visions of a society teeming with life and boiling over in its own acceleration
FLOATING
(飘)
Dir. Huang Weikai, 2004.
China. 93 min.
In Mandarin with English subtitles.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 – 5 PM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19 – 10 PM
Witness the transient, hand-to-mouth life of Yang Jiwei, a vagrant busker illegally performing in the cacophonous tiled underpasses of Guangzhou. Huang’s lens follows Yang as he dodges the authorities and navigates a tumultuous romance; all while life around him threatens to devolve into bureaucratic pandemonium.
DISORDER
(现实是过去的未来)
Dir. Huang Weikai, 2009.
China. 58 min.
In Mandarin with English subtitles.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8 – 10 PM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 – 10 PM
Guangzhou convulses in a grainy, black-and-white seizure, stitched together from a thousand hours of citizen-submitted amateur tape. A geyser erupts from a broken fire hydrant, a truck dumps pigs all across the highway, and casual mob violence unfolds into a waking nightmare.
Special Thanks to Icarus Films