Film: "Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers" (1990)

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A screening of Wu Wenguang's documentary about Beijing in the late '80s. At Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noes Hall. With Doc Films.

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Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers is a landmark of Chinese independent cinema, capturing the lives of five artists navigating Beijing in the late 1980s. Shot with an intimate, handheld style, the film follows painters, writers, and performers as they confront precarity, censorship, and shifting ideals after the Cultural Revolution.

Presented in conjunction with the Smart exhibition Beyond Boundaries: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art at the Smart, the film is shown in collaboration with <a href="https://docfilms.org/" title="https://docfilms.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">UChicago Doc Films</a> at Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall.

<h2>IMAGE</h2>Movie poster for Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990). Public Domain.

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Film: "Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers" (1990)

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