CHINESE BOXES

Passing from the close political System of the Communist China to the entrance in the Global market invested Chinese Society caused transformations and deep splits inside a country which is in the eye of the international community, astonished facing to the causes and effects of the explosion of the “Chinese miracle”.
The unbelievable economic growth of the last 25 years didn’t bring to a phase of social changes and reforms, pointed out as feed back the contradictions of a society deeply fragmented, that hardly follows the imposed growth rhythms, finding out confused and in some way dangerously “orphan” of the old System.
The dismantling of the Popular Republic seems to have left behind cognitive lacks hard to interpret such as to get back, that reflect in the urban landscape of cities as Peking and Hong Kong, cities building-sites symbol of the mutation under way, continuously under demolition and re-built .
The four materials chosen focus the regard on these metropolis daily life, revealing the double vision “Chinese images-Images of China” through the works of two Chinese video-makers and four Europeans that inquiry the cracks that compose the urban space.

We propose the Italian preview of Yau Ching’s fiction “Let’s love Hong Kong”, first lesbian film shot from a woman in Hong Kong, that explores the female desire in the surreal places of the modernity of this kind of post-atomic site, waiting for rebuilding.
In “Made in China” by Y. L. Scagliola and R. Weber, "Overloaded Peking" by M. Damiani and D. Musorrafiti emerges a capital extremely lively and in cultural growth, that has difficulties to keep together its inconsistencies, has many of the artists interviewed tell us (amongst them Jia Zhangke, inconvenient film-maker of the “Sixth generation” of contemporary Chinese cinema, met by M.Damiani e D.Musorrafiti).
Last, we propose the city preview of "The Concrete Revolution", of the Chinese writer and film-maker Xiaolu Guo, that collects the interviews of the workers of the 2008 Olympiads’ building-sites, that will end to make disappear the hudong, the old city alleys, to give place to the new buildings.