3rd China Onscreen Biennial

ChinaOnscreen.org (Link: http://www.chinaonscreen.org)

OPENING NIGHT (Link: http://www.chinaonscreen.org/program/#opening_night) : Friday, Oct. 14 7:30 PM @ The Hammer Museum

Featuring special guest GU CHANGWEI - World Premiere of 2 short films + Director Q&A, followed by THARLO

The third edition of the China Onscreen Biennial (COB) brings a showcase of Chinese films and cultural experiences to American audiences in three major cities - Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC. Audiences will be entertained by a spectacular tapestry of China's unique cultures, voices, religions and social experiences.

This year’s COB is a cultural and physical immersion into China's remarkable plurality, not only with the best selection of eclectic films, but also the live creation of sound mandalas using the voices of the audience and group meditation led by a practicing Rinpoche. The Spectrum (Link: http://www.chinaonscreen.org/program/#spectrummain) section of new feature and short films captures the diverse stories, sounds, images and texture of the country - from the big coastal cities such as Beijing to the borderlands, social margins, Tibetan highlands, refugee camps, and uninhabited “ghost towns”. A special sidebar film program, Dunhuang Projected (Link: http://www.chinaonscreen.org/program/#dunhuang_projected) , is inspired by the Buddhist cave art found in the desert oasis of Dunhuang, a nexus for global trade and cultural exchange along the Silk Road. The program correlates spiritual illumination, the cave art of Dunhuang, with contemporary illumination, the art of cinema.


For more information on this year’s program, please visit the website. (Link: http://www.chinaonscreen.org/program/)

2016 COB Schedule – LA

Oct. 14 – THARLO – 7:30 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Oct. 15 –TRIVISA – 7:30 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Oct. 17 – BEHEMOTH – 7:30 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Oct. 19 –STAGE SISTERS preceded by THE HEDONISTS – 7:30 PM @ James Bridges Theater

Oct. 23 – ATA and JOURNEY TO THE WEST – 9:00 AM at James Bridges Theater

Oct. 23 – A SIMPLE GOODBYE – 7:00 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Oct. 28 – RIVER – 7:30 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Oct. 29 – TA’ANG preceded by TRACES– 7:30 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Oct. 30 – THE ROAD – 7:00 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Oct. 31 – THE MONKEY KING 2 – 7:30 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Nov. 4 – YELLOWING preceded by A SUNNY DAY – 2:00 PM @ YRL Room 113600

Nov. 6 – DE LAN – 7:00 PM @ Billy Wilder Theater

Nov. 7 – THE FINAL MASTER preceded by NIGHTFALL ON SHANGHAI – 8:30 PM @ REDCAT

Nov. 9 – SAVING MES AYNAK preceded by A DEER OF NINE COLORS – 7:30 PM @ James Bridges Theater

Sponsor(s): Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, AFI FEST presented by Audi, Pomona College—Pacific Basin Institute, REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre), UCLA Film & Television Archive, Asia Society, Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, UCLA Confucius Institute, UCLA Office of the Chancellor, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLA Theater, Film and Television, Stephen Lesser, UCLA Boethius Initiative, yU+co, SCAD Hong Kong, Confucius Institute at George Washington University, MOCA Shanghai, UCLA Center for Media,aha Entertainment & S