Frames of Representation: Dragonfly Eyes + Q&A

' …a melodramatic story meant to be a commentary on privacy and violence.' - Variety

This screening is a UK premiere

Join us for a Q&A with director Xu Bing following the screening, hosted by Tony Rayns, filmmaker, critic and festival programmer with a special interest in East Asian cinema

All across China, surveillance cameras are tracking citizens as they go about their lives. Compiling diverse fragments of actual CCTV footage, Chinese artist Xu Bing constructs an unsettling fictional narrative about a young woman who leaves a Buddhist monastery to begin a new life, working in various jobs until she ultimately finds fame online.

With a voiceover that threads together disparate fragments, the film confronts us with an insightful yet troubling image of contemporary life and the technologies which regulate it. Instead of focusing on any single character, its concern is the texture of the present: how the spaces in which we live and come to know ourselves are framed, increasingly, by the gaze of others.

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