Yang Fudong has become one of the foremost photographers and film artists to emerge from China in recent years. This program features a rare screening of the first and last installments of Yang Fudong's five-part film project, Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest (2003–2007). A philosophical meditation on contemporary life, the videos revisit the legend of the Seven Sages—Daoist intellectuals from ancient China who fled sociopolitical chaos to live in a forest—and re-situates them in the 20th century.
Saturday, January 29, 2011, 4:00 p.m.