Ulrike Ottinger's 4-1/2 hour tableau of China, shot earlier this year, penetrates a world of art (dance, drama, cinema, cuisine and design) as well as an "everyday" world, in order to convey to the West new aspects of a contemporary foreign culture. Observation rather than interpretation is the key to her approach, which involves long-held shots and simple editing techniques, and original sound rather than commentary, to capture the spontaneous drama of real events. "...(S)tunning, saturating, a prolonged immersion in a China rarely seen, a film that seems itself Chinese..." (Variety). "Up till now I have dealt in my films with the themes of the exotic, of minorities and the varied ways in which they act out their roles within their own cultural circle. My interest is now directed towards an extension of this theme, the getting-to-know a 'real exotic' in a foreign land, in a different cultural circle. With the camera I try to conduct a discourse on the 'exotic' as an exploration of a point of view" (Ulrike Ottinger). Ulrike Ottinger's films which have shown at PFA include Ticket of No Return, Freak Orlando, and The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press.