On Light and Shadow: A Conversation with Crosscurrent Director Yang Chao
For his second feature, director Yang Chao presents a trek that is at once ordinary and extraordinary: a largely solitary journey on a river in...
The Shadow Play (China, 2018)
Emerging from two-years of censorship limbo, Lou Ye’s noir melodrama The Shadow Play is every inch a film by the Sixth Generation maverick despite jarring...
Crosscurrent (China, 2016)
Yang Chao’s second feature-length work Crosscurrent presents a largely missed — albeit strikingly shot — opportunity. Yes, the film is richly textured in terms of visuals, established...
Mystery (China, 2012) [NYAFF 2013]
It’s a cliché to state that China’s social landscape is constantly changing, but based on the milieu of Mystery, a few years away from home...