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Asian Media Access will present its 3rd Annual Chinese Film Showcase "Sexuality in Chinese Film" this April with a singular fortnight of features and documentaries.
The 1998 Chinese Showcase is co-sponsored by GLBT Student Services at Metropolitan State University; Lavender Bridge, Metropolitan State University's GLBT Student Organization, Minnesota AIDS Project, Allina Health System, GLBT & Friends Employee Network, and the Fuschian Society at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
All shows, unless otherwise noted, are at the Metropolitan State University Auditorium in St Paul. The address is 700 East 7th Street, between Maria Avenue and Mounds Blvd.
Tickets $5.00 per show; $50.00 Festival Pass; $4.00 Metro State Students
Please note: schedule is subject to change. For information call 376-7715
Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan feels that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality more frankly and more provocatively than any other national cinema. Keeping with its mission of presenting essential Asian cinema, AMA's Showcase will explore Kwan's claim with two weeks of regional premieres and recent filmic events from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China.
AMA's tantalizing selection of sexualities will feature representations of gay and lesbian life, coming-of-age adventures, contemporary tales of adult, alienated experience (with, admittedly, a post-modern chill), and the exuberant heroics of transgendered swords(wo)men!
In a rare North American screening, Tsai Ming-liang's The River, a winner at last year's Berlin Film Festival, will open the series. Also under consideration are Lin Cheng-Sheng's festival-acclaimed story of lesbian teens, Murmur of Youth and the controversial, banned-at-home East Palace, West Palace, the first depiction of contemporary gay life from Mainland China, directed by Zhang Yuan.
The series will be complemented by Oak Street Cinema's exclusive week-long run of Wong Kar-wai's acclaimed Happy Together. This film, winner of Best Director at last year's Cannes Film Festival and atop many Best of '97 lists, will play at Oak Street April 10 - 16. Call Kate Steger at 331-7563 for details.
"Sexuality in Chinese Film" will run from April 4 - April 17, with multiple shows running nightly. All shows (except Happy Together, at Oak Street) will be presented at Metropolitan State University - St Paul, in the Auditorium.