BAMPFA Exhibition: Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War
Fri Oct 23, 11am
Cold war media art
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"medicine for the West" (Henry Miller)
🌸"a film of poetic beauty" (Anaïs Nin)
🎞️Co-edited by doc legend Les Blank
A pious widow, a visiting soldier, and a village watching every move: T'ang Shushuen's Ming dynasty melodrama anticipated the Hong Kong New Wave, shot with hypnotic grace by Satyajit Ray's cinematographer.
Hong Kong New Wave
Ming dynasty setting
Experimental melodrama
Restored classic
Friday, October 23, 7:00 PM
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"medicine for the West" (Henry Miller)
🌸"a film of poetic beauty" (Anaïs Nin)
🎞️Co-edited by doc legend Les Blank
A pious widow, a visiting soldier, and a village watching every move: T'ang Shushuen's Ming dynasty melodrama anticipated the Hong Kong New Wave, shot with hypnotic grace by Satyajit Ray's cinematographer.
Hong Kong New Wave
Ming dynasty setting
Experimental melodrama
Restored classic
Friday, October 23, 7:00 PM
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- Hong Kong New Wave
- Ming dynasty setting
- Experimental melodrama
- Restored classic
- BAMPFA Store
- Downtown Berkeley
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