The Crack
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Synopsis
CIFA (the Chinese Independent Film Archive) has recently helped restore The Crack, a low-budget independent film made on 35mm, which has been screened only four times to a small circle in China since its completion in 2000. This semi-autobiographical film, set during the Cultural Revolution, provides the missing link between the roots-seeking and scar literature and art of the 1980s and the performance art of the 1990s and 2000s. It grounds many of the embodied extremes of China’s famous performance art in the persistent psychosexual fetishes and neuroses produced by the extreme denial of individual desire under “mass line” socialism.
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- Director
- Li Wake
- Original Title
- 窥
- Country of Origin
- China
- Spoken Languages
- Mandarin
- Runtime
- Unknown
- Production Studios
- 厦门音像出版社出版
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What is The Crack about?
CIFA (the Chinese Independent Film Archive) has recently helped restore The Crack, a low-budget independent film made on 35mm, which has been screened only four times to a small circle in China since its completion in 2000. This semi-autobiographical film, set during the Cultural Revolution, provides the missing link between the roots-seeking and scar literature and art of the 1980s and the performance art of the 1990s and 2000s. It grounds many of the embodied extremes of China’s famous performance art in the persistent psychosexual fetishes and neuroses produced by the extreme denial of individual desire under “mass line” socialism.
Who directed The Crack?
The Crack was directed by Li Wake.
Who stars in The Crack?
The principal cast of The Crack includes Jiang Gengchen, Zhou Haodong.
When was The Crack released and how long is it?
The Crack was released in 2002 with a total runtime of Unknown.