Event
Oxhide II
Sat Apr 14: 4.30pm
Liu Jiayin
China
2009
2h 12m
Series - Home Movies: Filmmakers Document Their Families
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In Oxhide II, Liu Jiayins parents make dumplings around a cramped table with their daughter while discussing the family business. Despite this simple premise, a complex structural element is at play: there are only nine shots, each of which are fixed at a different 45-degree angle within a 2.35 frame. What might sound like a stunt is instead a warm, welcoming, and very funny film a record of a family at work, performing a simple task that is revealed, through the directors formal choices, to be as hypnotic, dramatic and involving as anything on a grander scale.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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