Screening
Asian New Force Category Finalist
Killing A Pig Without Mao
Huang Zhenqian / China
Col / 13' 38" / In Putonghua with English subtitles
Meiling, a Chinese young apprentice in the slaughterhouse excels in the art of killing the pig. One day while cleaning, she discovers the statutes dusty in the refrigerator.
Artist's Statement
Zhenqian Huang was born in Guangzhou (China) and has lived in France since 2004. His works question the path between video art and experimental cinema in the form of image-document through : the disappearance of places, the fragments of memory, clashing with the traces left behind. This is a reconstitution of the memory between the perception of the place and resistant state of mind. «The relevant memories is present and reformulates the past reconstructing another reality on the human condition ». The film Killing A Pig Without Mao was born through a feminist activist letter at the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a curveball that is built between reality and fantasy.
