A Film That Never Begins (2o2o)
#video, #street intervention
A Film That Never Begins (1:43:44) but only plays various film company logos in loops. On May 14, 2020, a screening was held outside the demolished Shanxi Theatre, 470 North Shanxi Road, Zhabei District, Shanghai. It was was 111 days since the shutdown of all movie theaters in mainland China due to COVID-19; In the 66 days to come, theaters would remain closed.
Being a metonymy for the unending long wait for a normal life during the pandemic, A Film That Never Begins also coincidentally parallels the infertile Chinese cinema under the government’s draconian cultural censorship.
Being a metonymy for the unending long wait for a normal life during the pandemic, A Film That Never Begins also coincidentally parallels the infertile Chinese cinema under the government’s draconian cultural censorship.
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