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This week at the MoCP: Film Screening: Works by Mathieu Borysevicz, Shu Haolun, and Sylvie Levey

November 17, 2009

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Still from Sylvie Levey’s Shanghai Waiting for Paradise

Thursday, November 19, 6 pm
Ferguson Lecture Hall
600 S. Michigan Ave.
1st Floor

Films screened: Mathieu Borysevicz’s Taian lu (12 Min);
Shu Haolun’s Nostalgia (70 min);
Sylvie Levey’s Shanghai Waiting for Paradise (26 min)

Taian lu is a poetic account of a pregnant woman’s journey through the city of Shanghai. Nostalgia is an ode to the traditional Longtang and Shikmen housing structures that are rapidly disappearing from the neighborhoods of Shanghai. Shanghai Waiting for Paradise follows three generations of the Wang family living under one roof in the old city of Shanghai as they are confronted by the imminent demolition of their home.

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