>> 22 May - 29 May (virtual screening);
>> 29 May, 15:00-17:00 (in-person screening and conversation with the filmmaker)
>> Online & Gallery
>> Chinese (with English subtitles and interpretations)

Watch the premiere of Mao Chenyu’s newest film, Anti-Rural China (2021), followed by a conversation with the filmmaker, ponds among ponds curators Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, and theoretician Lu Xinghua. In response to Fei Xiaotong’s once banned and now widely-read study of Chinese rural society, From the Soil (1947), Mao questions From the Soil’s legacy, asking how to think about the rural reality of China today and open up thinking for the future?

Anti-Rural China is available for screening online one week prior to the conversation. Online viewers are welcome to join the 29 May conversation via live stream.