Fruit Chan: Unique is Very Important to Me; High and Low and In Between: The 2005 MIFF and Jia Zhang-ke's The World

Fruit Chan has risen to prominence over the past decade as the most innovative of Hong Kong's small band of independent filmmakers. He discusses his film Dumplings, his collaboration with Christopher Doyle and his work on Three Extremes; Adrian Danks examines Jia Zhang-ke's film as a metaphor for the place of China in the contemporary world, '...part of the grid of globalized communications but not quite able to clearly register the distinction between direct and mediated experience..' Danks also discusses World Mirror Cinema, Electric Edwardians, Henry Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque, Hidden, They Came Back and The Sky Turns.