Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

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Memory Project

Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

PRESS RELEASE:

"Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM" (Zhang Mengqi, 2019, 110 mins, China, Chinese w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital)

The eighth film in Zhang Mengqi’s monumental 47km series follows an 85-year-old man reflecting on his revolutionary history in pursuit of Mao’s “New China” and the 15-year-old woman whose portrait painting practice elicits his memories.

-- Zhang Mengqi in attendance

About The Memory Project

Wu Wenguang, a foundational figure for Chinese independent documentary film, launched The Memory Project in 2010 to document the gathering of oral histories from the rural survivors of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961). Wu and two of his collaborators will be on campus for three nights of film screenings and one night of performance.

Sponsors: Presented by Duke University Libraries; co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).

Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.

Parking Info: https://artscenter.duke.edu/parking/