Dancing with Water: Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside / Out Asia (Pan Lu; Araki Yu, 63min, 2021) – nonfiction

When: Saturday, March 30, 2024, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: BLOC, ArtsOne Building, Mile End

The screening will be followed by Q&A session with director Pan Lu, hosted by Kiki Yu.

Synopsis: Building on home videos made between the 1960s and 1990s from ordinary families around East Asia, the film shows the power of “anti-spectacle” of the folk images that are full of anthropological/sociological messages: the excitement/discomfort about the ability to control the making of moving images for the first time; the (self-)invitations to perform; the half-staged, voyeuristic and unconscious recording of the family. The overlapping themes and similar occasions in the videos incur boredom, the filmmakers’ playful yet insightful conversation stitches the chaotic footage together and gives new life to a nostalgic form of cinema.