China Onscreen Biennial - Beijing Flickers October 23, 2012

CHINA ONSCREEN BIENNIAL - BEIJING FLICKERS
Tuesday, October 23 at 8:30pm
http://www.redcat.org/event/china-onscreen-biennial

With his 13th film, Beijing Flickers, one of the most original and audacious voices of the Sixth Generation/Urban Generation of Chinese filmmakers returns to his inspiration in the 1990s, and artfully mixes documentary and fiction to delve into youth subculture in a society changing at full blast. Dumped by his girlfriend for a rich man, San Bao descends into a self-destructive spiral and meets several other kindred souls: a narcissistic drag queen addicted to cosmetic surgery and poetry; a female singer kicked out by her band because the other musicians hope to win a record contract by hiring someone else; a girl jilted by her corporate boss/lover. In Beijing's melting pot of social contradictions and hybrid cultural values, Zhang Yuan captures the vulnerability, but also the energy, the idealism and the romanticism of the new "lost generation" bypassed by China's entry into the globalized market economy.