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This short film by Andrew Cohen was shot and edited by Julien Roby, and postproduction (colour-grading & sound mixing) was carried by C-Side Productions.

 

PRODUCTION / DISTRIBUTION:
A-C Films
ArtAsiaPacific
contact: jroby (at) c-sideprod.ch

 

TECHNICAL SHEET:
HD / Colour / 26’
Directed by: Andrew Cohen
Production: Elaine W. Ng
Photography: Julien Roby
Sound operator: Han Sound
Interpreter: Hsin-Yi Hung
Editing: Julien Roby
Colour-grading: Damien Molineaux
Sound mix: Charles Menger
English adaptation: Lou Roby
Subtitling: C-Side Productions
Additionnal images: Wang Guangyi
Thanks to: Cathy Ho, Wang Junyi

Reasoning With Idols

A film by Andrew Cohen / A-C Films
Switzerland, China, 2012

 

SHORT VERSION (13’):

 

 

SUMMARY:
Even before his iconic Mao Zedong: AO (1988) shook the Chinese art world, Wang Guangyi, the father of Political Pop, had questioned the inherited canons of western and eastern art history with his avant-garde canvases of the 1980’s, amid relentless social and political campaigns that plaqued the People’s Republic.  As the artist prepares for his largest solo exhibition in China to date, at the Today Art Museum in the fall of 2012, Director Andrew Cohen speaks with Wang in his various Beijing studios about the allure of powerful cultural icons, and the continuing significance of Mao in shaping Wang’s works and world view.

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