Word: zhang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching 36 year-old Zhang Yuan's films is like walking through a Rorscharchian gallery--viewers' reactions reveal not only their psychological bias and perspective on society, but also the goal of Zhang's underlying artistic project. Unlike the majority of Chinese filmmakers today who make appeasingly jovial movies, Zhang sees his work as social stimuli. It is telling that he prefers to be called an "artist" rather than a "filmmaker...
Defying common labels seems to be a habit with Zhang. While he is categorized as a "Sixth Generation" director, Zhang balks at the reductionist labeling prevalent in Chinese cinema. While Zhang is right when he says "discussing directors as cohesive generations collapses varied styles into one," generational labels do help identify key changes in cinematic practice. Unified by a stylistic break from the past and disillusionment born out of the Cultural Revolution, Fifth Generation directors searched history and literature for a native, pristine China...
From November 2-13, the Harvard Film Archive is screening four films by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yuan, one of the leaders of the freshest talents of what critics term the "6th Generation Directors." The series will include Seventeen Years, for which he won the award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Zhang will be in attendance at a special screening of Seventeen Years Friday at 8:00 p.m. Zhang would like extend his invitations to all interested students...
...Translator: The goal is to expose the American audience to the quality works by Chinese directors and foreign directors in general, which is the goal of the Harvard Film Archive. Because of the prevalence of Hollywood, foreign directors like Zhang Yuan are not as widely known here as they are in Europe...
...Zhang Xiaobo is co-author of China Can Say No, a 1996 book of essays warning of a U.S.-led plot to contain China