The Flip Side presents the increasingly globalized circus world, where disparate people and acrobatic cultures come together, clash, and ultimately transform each other. We meet Daqi, a Chinese circus artist who leaves home at age 9 to train at an elite state-run circus academy. Restless after ascending to the zenith of the Chinese circus world, he leaves his stable “iron rice bowl” job to perform with Cirque du Soleil. Though Daqi possesses extraordinary technical skills, he has a difficult journey ahead to develop an artist’s expressive power. Daqi grows as an artist when he joins a circus troupe, 7 Fingers, whose intimate circus shows are based on the individual artists’ stories.
Val Wang, Department of English and Media Studies, will introduce her film.
(http://www.valwang.com/the-flip-side/)
89-year old Agnès Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR teamed up to co-direct Faces Places, an enchanting documentary/road moviie. Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size portraits of them. The photos are prominently displayed on houses, barns, storefronts and trains revealing the humanity in their subjects, and themselves. Faces Places documents these heart-warming encounters as well as the unlikely, tender friendship they formed along the way.
http://cohenmedia.net/films/faces-places)
The film will be introduced by Laure Astourian, Department of Modern Languages.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 6:30pm
Wilder Pavilion , Adamian Academic Center 165
Wilder Pavilion, 165 Adamian Academic Center, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452
Arts, Culture, Film, Music, Campus-wide, Diversity and Inclusion
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