UCCA Beijing

UCCA Special Screening: All Tomorrow’s Parties

2014.4.6
19:00

Cinema Arts
Location:  UCCA Art Cinema
Language:  In Chinese with French subtitles

In a post-apocalyptic mid-21st century, the Gui Dao sect rules continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to Camp Prosperity so that their dissident minds can be re-educated. They soon discover that camp life is more than just propaganda, bureaucratic annoyance, and trafficking. When the sect is suddenly overthrown, Zhuai runs away with single mother Xuelan and her son to a nearby deserted industrial city, where they try to readjust to a free life.

Yu Lik-wai’s All Tomorrow’s Parties was included in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

Speaker

Yu Lik-wai

Born in Hong Kong in 1966, Yu Lik-wai is a Chinese filmmaker and photographer who lives and works in Beijing. His directorial feature films include Love Will Tear Us Apart (1999), All Tomorrow’s Parties (2003), and Plastic City (2008). During his 18-year career as a cinematographer, he has shot all of Jia Zhangke’s films to date and has worked with Ann Hui and Lou Ye, among others. Yu has won numerous international prizes, including Best Cinematography, Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Award (2008), and Best Cinematography, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival (2004). Yu’s photographs are in the permanent collection of the M+ Museum, Hong Kong, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.