24 City

Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Er shi si cheng ji
Date: January 01, 2008 to December 31, 2008
Dates Note: 2008
Country of Origin: China
Place of Origin: China
Languages: Mandarin
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence
Description: 

Jia’s exquisite documentary/fiction hybrid examines a Chinese factory-city being dismantled to make way for luxury apartment houses. For Jia Zhangke, “history is always a blend of fact and imagination.” Fictionalized monologues, based on workers’ experiences but delivered by actors such as Joan Chen and Zhao Tao, are interwoven with real-life testimonies charting the factory’s activities from the Korean War to the present day: stories of political engagement, love, regret, and regeneration. What emerges is an elegy to a bygone city whose physical structures may be erased by the march of capitalist development, but whose memories live on. 

Authors/Roles: 
Chi-hui Yang

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