Kamimura is an ageing dancer living in the south of France and giving lessons in the Japanese art form Butoh to students who come to his farm. Every summer it seems his much younger lover, Yuzuko, leaves to be in New York - her presence in Kamimura's household overlapping only briefly with that of his middle-aged wife, Akiko, and their daughter, Mayu.
Digital Underground is a documentary that traces the proliferation and dissemination of independent film in China. These films represent some of the last vestiges of independent media in China today, and as such they often provide an unauthorized look into the experience of Chinese people as it is actually lived, rather than what the state allows to be seen.
Says one art critic Yang Xiaoyan, "the people are pragmatic in the southern province of Guangdong, China." They don't bother themselves too much with the esoteric or academic as much as the Mandarin-speakers do. Being independent spirits, the artists of the South were quick to accept more capitalist values at the end of the '80s and change their art accordingly. But what about the '80s themselves? What defined art in the south, which did not follow suit with the northern provinces and accept the '85 New Wave Movement that became 'a campaign' up north?
Raised from Dust follows the day-to-day life of Xiao-li, a devoted wife and Christian, as she picks up odd jobs to support her family now that her husband has fallen ill. While she finds support and sympathy from the other members of her congregation, her life is not easy by any means. Things go from bad to worse, as they often do, and her faith is put to the ultimate test.
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Chinese Swinger Gets 3.5 Years in Prison
Boy in China Undergoes Surgery To Remove Extra Digits
Lisa Ling to Have Her Own Documentary Series on the Oprah Winfrey Network
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