YUMEN

J.P. Sniadecki

J.P. Sniadecki (MI, USA) is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose films have screened at festivals such as the Berlinale, the Locarno International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Viennale, BAFICI, the Beijing Independent Film Festival, and at museums and galleries such as the Guggenheim and the MoMA in New York, the MAC in Vienna, the UCCA in Beijing and the 2014 Whitney Biennale. He is also a professor of filmmaking in the performing and media arts department at Cornell University. In 2013 he presented his documentary Yumen, codirected with Chinese artists Xu Ruotao e Huang Xiang, in the section Internazionale.doc of Torino Film Festival. 

FILMOGRAFIA

Chaiqian (doc., 2010), Foreign Parts (coregia/codirector Verena Paravel, doc., 2010),
People’s Park (doc., 2012), Yumen (coregia/codirectors Xu Ruotao, Huang Xiang, doc., 2013), The Iron Ministry (doc., 2014).

Xu Ruotao

Xu Ruotao (Shenyang, China, 1968) lives in Songzhuang, China, and began his career in Yuanmingyuan, the first Chinese village of independent artists. He debuted in feature films in 2009 with Rumination.

Huang Xiang

Huang Xiang (China, 1979) lives and works in Songzhuang. After a performance of Jasmine Flower, he spent thirty days in jail on the orders of the Chinese authorities and his freedom to work as an artist was restricted. He directed the feature-length Roast Chicken (2012).