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DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the exhibition, Sarkis: Alive and After, SFAI will host 
 a series of free public film screenings in the Lecture Hall. The films, 
 selected by Sarkis as those that have influenced his practice, include Wang 
 Bing's rarely screened 10-hour film Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks. The film 
 screening dates are as follows, all screenings take place at 7:30pm unless 
 otherwise noted: The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Jean-Marie Straub 
 and Danièle Huillet (October 3); The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei 
 Paradjanov (October 10); Ice, Robert Kramer (October 17); Stalker, Andreï 
 Tarkovski (October 24); 1+1 (Sympathy for the Devil), Jean-Luc Godard 
 (October 31); Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks (Saturday & Sunday, November 4 & 5, 
 11am-2pm, 2:30pm-5:30pm, 7pm-10pm); The Seasons, Artavazd Pelechian 
 (TBA).\n\n“Tie Xi Qu: West Of The Tracks”  - November 4 & 5\n(China, 
 2003)\nWang Bing \nOnce its country's industrial manufacturing showcase, 
 the Tie Xi district of northeastern China saw its economy collapse in the 
 late 1990s. Its failures became symbolic of those of the nation, with its 
 symptoms of industrial decay, unemployment, dead-end towns, and dead-end 
 kids. They are symptoms repeated in cities and regions across the globe, 
 everyplace the new world economic miracle conspicuously avoided. Playing 
 out like the nonfiction flip side of recent Chinese films like Unknown 
 Pleasures and Shower, or a visually and emotionally rich seminar on 
 contemporary Chinese culture and global capital, Tie Xi Qu: West of the 
 Tracks follows this region's changes through a three-year period, and the 
 individuals who are blessed—or cursed—to experience them. \n\nPart I, 
 Rust depicts the day-to-day activities in what's left of the industrial 
 heartland of China, following workers as they toil in such life-sapping 
 realms as The Shenyang Smelting Factory. Infiltrating break rooms and 
 smelting floors, Wang's camera is as entranced by the physical decay of the 
 factories themselves as by the lively, at times intense hierarchies and 
 interplays of the people within them. \n\nPart II, Remnants is a portrait 
 of the optimistically named Rainbow Row, a working-class neighborhood 
 slated for destruction. Focusing on the groups of aimless teens that hang 
 out along Rainbow Row's corridors and corners, Remnants is the real-time 
 documentary version of recent Chinese gangster-youth cinema, with its 
 teenage protagonists as anxious, idiosyncratic, and disenchanted as any of 
 their fictional counterparts, yet far more memorable. \n\nPhotographed by 
 Wang. (423 mins, In Mandarin with English subtitles, Color) \n\nFilm Notes 
 Courtesy of Pacific Film Archive\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/17/18321063.php
SUMMARY:"Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks" Sarkis Film Series (2 Day Screening)
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\n800 Chestnut 
 Street\n415.771.7020\nwww.sfai.edu
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/17/18321063.php
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