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Tape

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  • Documentary

Overview

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern life in China. He is caught between two families: his wife, son and mother, whom he can barely support; and his enthusiastic but disorganized guerilla dance troupe. Li's chaotic life becomes inseparable from the act of taping it, as if his experiences can only make sense on screen. Tape shatters documentary conventions, utilizing a variety of approaches, including guerilla documentary, experimental street video, even CGI. Tape captures a decade's worth of artistic aspirations and failures, while breaking new ground in individual expression in China.

Keywords

  • china
  • avant-garde

Details

Status
Released
Release date
January 31, 2011
Original language
Chinese
Countries
China
Director
Li Ning
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
Tape (2011) | Kinocult