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We Went to Wonderland
2008. UK. Xiaolu Guo. 76 min.
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Flotsam Jetsam
2007. USA. Patty Chang and David Kelley. 30 min.
Sunday, March 30, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
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We Went to Wonderland
2008. UK. Directed by Xiaolu Guo. A Chinese man who has lost his voice after an operation for cancer now communicates through the written word. Despite his age and frail health, he has always dreamed of visiting Europe. Now he and his delightfully pragmatic wife embark on a long awaited great adventure, first stopping at their daughter's home in England and continuing on to the Continent. There are some amusing encounters along the way, as well as some surprising revelations about the husband. In minute detail director Xiaolu Guo follows the couple on their adventure, with subtle digs at the consequences of globalization as well as capturing the confusion of the pair as they confront an alien culture for which they have few reference points. 76 min.
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Flotsam Jetsam
2007. USA. Directed by Patty Chang and David Kelley. In 2005 an American nuclear submarine crashed into an uncharted underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean. Two years later, artists Patty Chang and David Kelley constructed their own submarine and launched it in the Yangtse River in China, just below the Three Gorges Dam. With members of a Chinese opera troupe on board, the sub's journey becomes an imaginative performance exploring space, identity, and memory. 30 min.
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