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Investigating My Father<\/strong><\/p>\n 80 min. \/ China \/ Documentary \/ 2016\u00a0 – Chinese with English Subtitles<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Performance art as cinema, in an \u2018experimental documentary\u2019, appears alien and perhaps not considered cinema at all by some. While this is not an easy film for fidgety people, if you surrender to its meticulous, patient gaze, its minimalist richness delivers a profoundly moving experience, not least because of its contemporary resonance, delving as it does, personally and mercilessly, into Mao\u2019s cultural revolution at a time when the world\u2019s many tyrants are again engaged in name-calling and vilification to incite, divide and conquer, setting the people against each other.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018Investigating My Father<\/em>\u2019 reveals how a human-being is reduced to paper, the efforts expended, by a society whipped to hysteria, to define and classify people by degree of political correctness, to be (mis)treated accordingly. The story reaches its dark heart in a darkened art gallery as filmmaker and artist Wu Wenguang recalls a \u2018session of criticism\u2019 directed at his father at the farm labour camp that he\u2019d been sent to for 11 years to \u2018reform through labour\u2019 this \u2018Landlord\u2019s Son\u2019 into a member of the New Society.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then a young boy on a visit at the farm, he\u2019d watched as the others turned on his father. \u201cYou\u2019re not feeding the pigs right; you lead cows back too early; you don\u2019t help, they kept saying. They didn\u2019t do half his work yet they criticized him. Dad only agreed with what they said. I remember thinking: these people are normally nice to me, why are they doing this? Why is Dad so gutless? Why is he not defending himself? I was so dejected over how \u2018friends\u2019 could turn on you like that and how could Dad be so weak?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This was a mere precursor to the gut-punch. At the same labour camp, a hard rain had scattered the cows and Dad had to round them up, missing the communal meal. \u201cDid you save me some food? Dad asked me. You didn\u2019t save me dinner! You don\u2019t care about me! You spend time with the other adults! Dad yelled as he furiously whipped the cows in the driving rain. Go home! I don\u2019t want to see you again, motherfucker!\u201d We don\u2019t actually see the exhausted, hungry, embittered old man, the cow being whipped, the horrified boy or the rain, but we feel all their pain: each and every separate soulful individual caught in this web of national hysterical deceit: the old man, the whipped cow, the boy and yes, even the cold rain. That\u2019s cinematic enough for me. (Alice Skinhead<\/em>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Director-Editor : Wu Wenguang<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bAIDU9QyTEw<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Investigating My Father 80 min. \/ China \/ Documentary \/ 2016\u00a0 – Chinese with English Subtitles Performance art as cinema, in an \u2018experimental documentary\u2019, appears alien and perhaps not considered cinema at all by some. While this is not an easy film for fidgety people, if you surrender to its meticulous, patient […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCast: Wen-guang Wu<\/strong><\/p>\n