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Contact Zones: The World
Tuesday, November 3 · 7 p.m. · Gene Siskel Film Center
- When
- Tuesday, November 3 · 7 p.m.
- Where
- Gene Siskel Film Center164 North State Street · Chicago, IL · 60601
About this event
A missive from the peak years of Chinas integration with the global capitalist economy, THE WORLD is set in Beijings World Park, a sprawling theme park featuring scaled replicas of global landmarks. Migrant workers like Tao (Zhao Tao) and Taisheng (Chen Taisheng) staff the park and aspire toward better things: love, a dream career in the arts, any sort of future in a place where the ground perpetually shifts under ones feet. Director Jia Zhangke adds moments of digital animation and stylized imagery to evoke the psychological effects of rapid modernization as well as the vertiginous 21st-century experience of traveling the world without leaving home.
Listed by DoStuff: Chicago, IL, gathered by the Evanston events calendar.