The film opens with four straight minutes of different guards frantically folding their bed sheets several times until they are molded into perfect rectangular prisms. Liang draws attention to the constant tension present along the border of North Korea, where the government seeks to immediately crush any form of ostentatious behavior, whether it be public drunkenness or the pilfering of a simple board game. The guards are often summoned for menial civil problems, like phony calls to police officers about a dead body or a stolen mah-jongg board game. âÄúCrime and Punishment (Zui yu fa)âÄù shows several raids of delinquentsâÄô houses, followed usually by a disproportionately harsh verbal lashing. 30 LiangâÄôs second film follows a set of border guards along the border between China and North Korea. âÄúCrime and Punishment (Zui yu fa)âÄù DIRECTED BY: Zhao Liang WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. However, these citizens often find themselves spending years in poverty as they wait for the government to hear their pleas.
The only means of righting these bureaucratic wrongs is to draft a petition and move to a remote town in China in an effort to have their voices heard. Many of the people in the film have been wrongfully fired without benefits or robbed of all of their belongings. 29 In concurrence with his running exhibition at the Walker, âÄúHeavy Sleepers ,âÄù visiting artist Zhao Liang pushes us into the world of the impoverished Chinese lower-class in his 2009 documentary âÄúPetition âÄî The Court of the Complainants.âÄù Liang examines the hardships of the Chinese working-class when they are wronged by the government. âÄúPetition âÄî The Court of the ComplainantsâÄù DIRECTED BY: Zhao Liang WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. Here are a few A&E recommend you check out. âÄúWe isolate the time frame to look at people who are doing something unusual with the format.âÄù Particular emphasis is placed upon the work of cinematographer Ellen Kuras and Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang, both of whom will appear at the Walker for various events supporting their work. âÄúSometimes physically changing the shape, such as using multiple screens or using the frame in a different way,âÄù Mousley said.
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The modern art bastion on Hennepin seeks to further that endeavor with their exploratory six-month film series âÄúExpanding the Frame,âÄù an ambitious project that Walker curator of film and video Sheryl Mousley explains has the aim of âÄúexpanding the idea of filmmaking in a different way.âÄù Though no single idea unites each offering, the works selected by the WalkerâÄôs film staff during months of research all seek to challenge our pre-existing ideas of film and performance art and strive to transcend limits and conventions.
Wandering through its stark white rooms can reveal to an art explorer gilded toilets, Swedish architecture and even an exhibit of phallic caterpillars. 28 TICKETS: $24 for five films The Walker Art Center is all about opening up the minds of those who come to ponder over its rooms of sculpture, installation and performance art. Expanding the Frame: Journeys WHERE: Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Mpls WHEN: Jan.