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A grounded, gritty documentary.
A CCTV-commissioned, 8-part series shot between 1988 and 1990, but barred from being released after the events of June 4th. A production of the Structure, Wave, Youth, Cinema (SWYC) Experimental Group, an informal collective of young filmmakers founded in the summer of 1989 and devoted to the production of documentaries, that includes: this series' two directors, Shi Jian and Chen Jue, as well as Beijing TV's Wang Zijun, and this series' screenwriter, Kuang Yang (under the name Guang Yi). Tiananmen documents various aspects of life surrounding the Square: survivors of the imperial era, street performers, fledgling entrepreneurs, fashion school students, foreigners marrying Chinese nationals, and so forth. Each episode starts with a close-up of a giant portrait of Mao hung over the Square, and proceeds as a hybrid of archival footage, direct cinema, and cinema verité, weaving a permanent dialectic between the present and the past, daily life and history.
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Yes - Tiananmen is screening at Gardena Cinema in Los Angeles, with 1 showtime listed on Mood.
The next screening of Tiananmen at Gardena Cinema is on Sunday 13 September at 15:00.
Tiananmen at Gardena Cinema is shown in English.
Tiananmen (Documentary, 1991) is A CCTV-commissioned, 8-part series shot between 1988 and 1990, but barred from being released after the events of June 4th.