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SHORTS: “Diving into the Inner World” ( Runtime: 99 min)

Presented by: Sine Screen

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0	LONDON: BLOC, Arts One Building
P	Saturday 24th February, 2024
N	3:50pm

Event information

SHORTS: “Diving into the Inner World” ( total: 99 min) is part of Dancing with Water: Chinese women’s film season. This Shorts programme collects 5 shorts created by 5 emerging female directors.

Step Into the River (Ma Weijia, 15min, 2020)
A story about two girls who survived. One was born because her elder brother died; it was luck from natural choice; The other was saved when she was abandoned by her biological parents; it was a man-made result. But no matter what reason they survived, they all feel inferior for their own existence. The two girls cherished each other, and their friendship gave them the strength to live.

Jiang River (Chen Xuan, 15min, 2021)
"Jiang River" is the fourth work in the sequence of Chen Xuan's Landscape video art creation.Shot in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province,the hometown of her grandparents, where the author has not arrived before, and attempts to intervene in the practice of landscape video art creation in a sociological and anthropological way. Through the exploration of her own history, she tries to connect individual narratives with social processes and specific geography, accomplishing her own breakthrough in the creation of landscape video artwork in a warm way with her own care.

Growing (Liang Jingyuan, 38min, 2021)
Tong is bearing a huge misfortune and pressure before her college entrance examination, she thinks only a place full of love could let her truly settle down. The college entrance exam is only few weeks away she's wandering around without knowing where to go.

Sliver Cave (Cai Caibei, 14min, 2022)
Stepping into a cave, the sight fluctuates by the firelight. Left to right, top to bottom. The same goes for the screen in front of you. It is a borderless tunnel, presenting domestication and desire.

Taste of Cherry (Zou Xinran, 32 min, 2022)
A woman who is haunted by nightmares due to abortion meets a cam-girl by accident. They agree to go into the mountains together. During this journey, they find each other and get a touch of solace in life.

About the programme: Dancing with Water 2024 is introducing over 15 film events exploring contemporary China and women's cinema. The programme will be presented from Feburary to April 2024 across venues in London.

The programme is curated by Kiki Tianqi Yu and Shan Tong, which captures a burgeoning energy of fluidity, flexibility and resilience of Chinese women filmmakers and their cinemas, resonating with the Daoist concept of yin and water as not only soft and formless but also pervasive and tenacious.

For more please check out www.dancingwithwaterfilm.com.