Chinese Visual Festival 2011 - Lost in Transformation
30th June to 15th July 2011 at local venues in central London
With the 90th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China on 1st July this is time to take stock of life in China. Though a world superpower its people and artists are still in transition and this important festival of documentary film and photo art shows the ways this incredible nation are defining themselves.
The Chinese Visual Festival is a twin art festival dedicated to promoting Chinese independent documentary making partnering 10 short documentaries shown at Birkbeck College and London South Bank University with a video art and photographic exhibition at 17 Dorset Square, Marylebone.
Both exhibition and film tell untold stories with unknown faces looking at the life of children, economic recession, industrial work and the Chinese love of Shakespeare, featuring a generation who feel Lost in Transformation. The exhibition joins the documentary films in presenting unique perspective and the images and videos talk back to the documentaries in agreeing or disagreeing voices.
