Zheng Lu Xinyuan at Kino Arsenal

28.05.2024 – 29.05.2024
With Zheng Lu Xinyuan

In her two feature-length works, Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan sounds out the possibilities of autobiographical cinema in fearless, formally creative fashion. In Jet Lag, her second feature-length work, she connects different times and places into a personal essay about intimacy, family, absent fathers, life as part of a diaspora and the unreliable nature of memory. Reflections from pandemic-enforced isolation in an apartment in Graz and a quarantine hotel in China are woven together with family history: a family trip to Myanmar in search of the traces of the filmmaker’s great-grandfather, who travelled there in the 40s and never returned. His mysterious disappearance continues to emotionally affect his daughter, Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s grandmother, to this day. The moments captured on DVCAM and smartphone camera, the constant use of black and white and the non-linear arrangement of the images create an impression of drifting through time and space.

As her director’s choice to accompany her film Jet Lag, Zheng Lu Xinyuan has chosen the five-part work which premiered to great acclaim at the Venice Biennale: Yang Fudong’s Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, which will be shown on May 29th.

28.05.2024, 7:30 pm
Zheng Lu Xinyuan: Jet Lag
Austria, Switzerland / 2022
111 min. / DCP
Original version with English subtitles
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29.05.2024, 6:00 pm
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest (Parts 1 to 5)
China / 2003-2007 / 29 min. / 46 min. / 53 min. / 79 min. / 90 min. / DCP
Original version with English subtitles
Intermission (30 minutes) after part 3
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