Our Time Machine
Year: 2019
Country:
USA, CHINA
Language:
Chinese
Run Time:
81 minutes
Shanghai-based artist Maleonn contemplates the past through his whimsical photo tableaus and performance art. His father, Ma Ke, is a now-retired prolific Peking Opera director losing his memory to Alzheimer’s. Holding on to the dream of collaborating with his father, Maleonn creates the hybrid stage performance, Papa’s Time Machine, a tale of father and son on a quest to retrieve the past before it disappears forever. The show grows more elaborate and costly as life-sized puppets, an airplane, and digital projections are added, pushing production time from six months to multiple years. As time goes by, so does Ma Ke’s memory. Reflecting on the Cultural Revolution’s persecution of artists one moment, he has trouble recalling his son’s script the next. Father and son are faced with their own mortality as it becomes clear there is no way to truly regain the past once it is lost. OUR TIME MACHINE captures both the strength and limits of art against the passage of time. (In English and Chinese with subtitles) — D.O.
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Closed Captions: No
Audio Description: No
English Subtitles: No
Sidebars
Film Is Art
Pan-Asian Cinema
Competition
Ad Hoc Docs Competition
Directors
S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun
Producers
Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang
Screenwriting
S. Leo Chiang, Bob Lee
Cinematography
Yang Sun, Shuang Liang
Editing
Bob Lee
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