CINEMA ALLEY 2012

SYDNEY. 3 FEBRUARY 2012, 8pm.

Coinciding with the City of Sydney’s Chinese New Year Festival, Cinema Alley celebrates contemporary Chinese video art with the screening of five significant short video artworks by Asian artists and filmmakers in an open-air street cinema located on Parket Street, Haymarket in the heart of the Chinatown district.

Curated by Aaron Seeto, Cinema Alley features a selection of short film and video-based art works by five leading contemporary Asian artists: Chen Cheih-Jen; Jun Yang; Ou Ning and Cao Fei; Wang Qingsong; and Yuan Goang-ming. The films explore the artists’ different perceptions of their cities, transformation, experiences of alienation and the effects that history and tradition place on the individual.

Globalisation, labour, consumerism and migration are key themes in the films with the content touching on the harrowing experience of a man adrift on a small boat at sea, the hardship faced by factory workers, teams of skyscraper construction workers and the fate of once rural Chinese regions experiencing the rapid onset of real estate development.

Media Coverage:

Central Magazine by Kim Shaw

Time Out Sydney by Stuart Holmes