Layers of Reality: Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s ‘The Cloud in her Room’
“Dreamlike”, “transitory”, “driftily disjointed” – reviewers have used these terms fittingly to describe Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s debut feature, The Cloud…
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Cao Fei’s ‘Blueprints’ finds freedom in fantasy
Cao Fei’s ‘Blueprints’ begins in a room decorated to look like a mid-20th century foyer in China: the kind you…
Mr Zuckerberg, Tear Down My Wall
A common narrative about social media goes like this: something something anxiety and deep insecurity; it’s hard to see an…
De-fetishising the Commodity: Xiaolu Guo’s ‘Five Men and a Caravaggio’
Five Men and a Caravaggio is true to its title: a story of five men, each from different artistic professions,…
BERLINALE – The Debt of a Mother’s Love: On Yang Mingming’s ‘Girls Always Happy’
To be a woman is to be in a world that understands you as other; the mere act of being…